Word: barefooted
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...homespun, Main Street appeal of the figure whom Fred Allen called "the man with the barefoot voice" brought to mind images from a simpler America: Will Rogers, Huckleberry Finn. Sentimental Godfrey choked up while narrating President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral for CBS Radio and shed tears on TV while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through...
...quoted as telling the Sun: "[Andrew's] dates were always young and fanciable. He was so sure of his chances-and so cheeky-that he would order double bacon and eggs the night before." The story ended with a titillating banner about the Princess of Wales: TOMORROW: WHEN BAREFOOT DI BUTTERED MY TOAST...
Here I am babbling, Dad, and I know you brook no babble. But what can you expect of a barefoot surgeon from Crabapple Cove, Me. ? I can't wait to come home, hug you and then log six or seven months' sleep...
...cash and $40,000 worth of inventory from her clothing shop and then failed to return to a motel where she was waiting with her mother and three children. Another of Vigliotto's wives, Sharon Clark of Angola, Ind., told the jury that she was abandoned barefoot and $49,000 poorer in an Ontario motel three weeks after their June 1981 wedding. But Clark tracked her larcenous Lothario for three months and 10,000 miles to a Florida shopping center, where she turned him in to the local sheriff. He was extradited to Arizona on charges filed by Gardiner...
...India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle of social reform who owned no possessions and tramped 45,000 miles barefoot around India, preaching nonviolence and soliciting contributions of land for the poor...