Word: boot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil. When she reads in the paper that the little girl has been murdered, Hilary is sure "the Devil...
...Farmer North, the revolution in farming came at precisely the right time. Twenty years ago Warren North could not afford a pair of new work shoes; he did his chores in an overshoe and a boot. Today, by taking full advantage of all the scientific advances, plus an amount of hard work that would have broken a weaker man, North is comfortably a millionaire. But he remembers every struggling step of the way up. Born in 1913 on the farm he now owns, near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work...
...cool), the photography involves no bright colors or spectacular panoramas (cool), and the characters for the most part act quite coolly inded. Von Bergen calmly informs Sforzi, even as the latter is in the process of killing him, that he (Sforzi) is strictly small time and a crapule to boot. Sforzi himself is the very image of coolness until after the murder; at one point he saunters into the room shared by Sophie and Michel, looks on as Michel assists Sophie with her bath, has a try himself at seducing Sophie, and then leaves. All this without so much...
Fumetti magazines rarely pursue such Biblical story lines, but from the strap to the toe of Italy's boot they are all the rage. Each week some 4,000,000 Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...
Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National Council and the Municipal Council. The 3,000 citizens and 18,000 foreign residents of the park-sized, 370-acre principality were warned that "public meetings of a political character" were banned...