Word: barefooted
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...Then the judge, no Prince Charming, took a look at black-frocked Mme. de Siva. Said he: "It won't do, it won't do." She was too old to be Cinderella. "But the shoe fits," she cried. Officials took the shoes off her feet, edged her, barefoot, off the platform. While she protested: "It's a scandal. I'll call the police," they hurriedly shoehorned the size3 golden slippers on the feet of a 28-year-old stenographer named Huguette Granet. Huguette's prize: a pair of shoes with four-in.-high heels...
...happy coincidence, this mixture perfectly conveys the flavor of Shulman's humor. Readers whose palates were tickled by Shulman's previous concoctions (Barefoot Boy with Cheek, Sleep Till Noon) will find these stories just about as pleasant to swallow as anything he has written. People who have never tried Shulman might be well advised to test themselves first with a Varsity Voom...
...attention to the fact that her women friends regard her as a bit on the calculating side. She is a farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When Ava was two, her father lost his farm and became a tenant farmer. Ava loved to run about barefoot, and is still apt to appear at parties carrying her shoes. She climbed trees and smoked cigarettes behind the barn with the boys...
...could make an unlikely damage suit pay off like a cash register. At 43, he was a pink-cheeked, garrulous lawyer, with a weakness for pinstripe suits, who knew all the angles for getting publicity for himself and his clients. In the courtroom, in steady command of a soft, barefoot Arkansas drawl, he had a wonderful way with juries...
Shirtless and full of aloha spirits, Cinemactor Zachary (Born to Be Bad) Scott walked into a Honolulu penny arcade where a bemused crowd gathered to watch him shimmy through a barefoot hula. The show ended when, cops arrived, charged Scott with being drunk, bedded him in jail for six hours...