Word: rubbering
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...Frederic Hood, president of the Hood Rubber Co., will speak at a meeting of the Engineering School Society in Peirce Hall on Thursday, December 20. His subject will be developed on the point of view of a labor leader...
Probably the most singular novelty of the season was the appearance of rubber trousers ? worn by Army, Pittsburgh and West Virginia players on rainy playing fields. Comparatively light in weight and slippery as an eel's hips, the player thus equipped has his opponents at a considerable disadvantage. It is probable that the Rules Committee will afford the rubber trouser legislative recognition...
Eight ladies' umbrellas, four gentlemen's umbrellas, four raincoats, one poncho, one fur neckpiece, one scarf, one auto robe, three blankets, one steamer rug, two pillows, one wicker seat, one rubber belt, one gentleman's kid glove, one pair of ladies rubbers, one pair of glasses, and one stop watch...
Once the unsportsmanlike downpour, however, having seen its victims definitely wedged each in his own Sitz bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
Precedent gives this a portent. The "chummy roadster" definitely abolished the bustle, and Coles Phillips popularized the silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...