Word: rubbering
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...rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support his widowed mother. At 17 he went into business for himself, opened a bicycle repair shop. On Saturday afternoons he rode in bicycle races, became Junior Champion of the vicinity, added thus to his fame, his income. But it was in four-wheeled, not two-wheeled...
...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...Manhattan, druggists sold little rubber earplugs designed to frustrate noise. These were sold to persons who could not sleep because of truck whistles, "L" rumblings, radio squeakings, jazz shriekings...
Married. Mary Hay, nimble dancer, recently divorced wife of Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess; to one Vivian Bath, British rubber man; at Greenwich, Conn., secretly. They will live in Singapore...
Engaged. Katherine Pennington Litchfield, daughter of P. W. Litchfield, President of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; to Howard...