Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most striking Losch oil: Saga in Five Movements, which was five paintings in one and an allegory of the life of woman to boot. In it Woman 1) emerges hopefully from adolescence, 2) meets a lover under a tree in Eden, 3) wanders in solitude, 4) swings on a symbolic bar between heaven and earth, 5) returns to a home and children...
...looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing...
...There was the decision to enter Italy by the toe of the boot. This called for an advance along the mountain range, which offered ample opportunity for German defense, as we unfortunately have learned. In executing the decision there was inadequacy of force and our artillery lacked the heavies required...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
...military, though it takes only 10% of total shoe production, will now take 30% of the sole-leather supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...