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...said that members of the Grand New Party "cannot waste time shaking hands with each other . . . The GNP has got to rub truly friendly elbows with everybody . . . Our victory will make America American again...
Next day, Mr. Salteena bluntly told Bernard: "You can help me perhaps to be more like a gentleman . . . Well. . . said Bernard I can give you a letter to my old pal the Earl of Clincham ... He might rub you up ... Oh ten thousand thanks said Mr. Salteena ... If you would be so kind as to keep an eye on Ethel while I am away ... I dont think you will find her any trouble." To which Bernard answered warmly, "No I dont think I shall...
...over of the last-place Brookynites makes the spirited cat the club's mascot in the hope that some of its fight will rub off in his lethargic team. In midseason the owner dies, leaving the t4eam to Rhubarb who, after many adventures, leads the Bums to an inevitable triumph...
...reason curanderas are popular is that they charge less than doctors. Furthermore, they treat ailments that doctors cannot touch. Only brujas can cure children of the evil-eye sickness (one way is to rub the child's forehead with an herb called tronadora). Doctors can do little for the pangs of unlucky love, but any bruja worth her fee knows that a dried hummingbird pinned inside a girl's dress will usually bring back a strayed lover...
...equally taken by "more modest programs" like What's My Line, Blind Date, Hollywood Screen Test, Life Begins at Eighty. As for vulgarity: "Well, America is a vulgar country in the broadest sense of the word, and some of its down-to-earth brashness is bound to rub off into TV . . . Bride and Groom is as embarrassing as watching your girl friend publicly eating peas off her knife. But on the whole the programs are high level. If there is glamour on view, there is usually talent along with it. You must talk with your mouth as well...