Word: rubbering
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...humble shoebag, heavy with potency, set amidst the whispering grandeur of mattresses, old iron, papers and rubber tires, joggled tracklessly through the streets of Springfield, Mass., borne on a junk wagon to ignominious barter. The frowzy-whiskered junkman shifted about in his seat when a motorcycle policeman ordered him to the curb, fluttered two dirty palms in astonishment. The officer settled on a blue mattress as a hawk onto a mouse, prospected deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after...
Filipinos. Oracle Thompson was an interesting exhibit before the joint opening session of Filipino Senate and House. He was applauded half-heartedly (Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...
Banker Van Vetchen's availability as a President is not lessened by his directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...
...driver of Robert Tyre Jones swung down, flicked a blade of grass, a chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that...
...more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres...