Word: barefooted
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...turned out though, they didn't. The sophs had been tipped off, but were sporting about their victory. As a freshman described it to me, "First the sophs made us walk barefoot in a stagnant pool and poison ivy--but they let us give our cheer...
...barefoot twins, high jumping George Hipple, cleared 6 feet 3 1/2 inches to set a meet record, while the mile relay team did its duties in 3:22.9. Roland Sultze anchored the mile quartet in a fast 48.4 seconds with John Keene, William Easton, and Peter White as teammates. Sultze also does the 440 in something loss than...
Bare Feet. When he was in short pants, and presumably a lower state of consciousness, Tobey lived in the village of Trempealeau, Wis., on the banks of the Mississippi ("I was strictly the barefoot boy-hunting, fishing and flowers"). In adolescence he painstakingly copied Satevepost covers, and "thought the American girl was the most beautiful thing you could put on canvas...
...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...