Word: boots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advices from the southern continent said that the Sao Paulo rebels of Brazil, whose revolt failed conspicuously last year (TIME, July 14 et seq.), and who have not yet been brought to boot by the Federal Government, were preparing the second installment of their rebellion, were preparing to attack in the region of La Guayra on the Parana River...
...Petronius is attracted to a boot-legging cafe which has already been raided once and to a orgiastic dancing club where whites and negroes mingle, it is not necessary for him to lug his weaknesses into print. These faults in literary taste are exactly those which another reviewer in commenting soundly on "Wild Asses" and "Wild Marriage" scored, and they are far from being characteristic of the Bookshelf as a whole. Frederick deW Pingree...
...this familiar outline, Miss Lowell has brought new opinions, new material. She has studied old stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep...
...with tender, operatic passion in the black night-sky ?all belonged to her. She had bought them, it seemed, when she bought the palace of the Cybo Malaspina which perched-a splendid example of baroque architecture?on a hill above the little town of Vezza. Ah, Italy! The boot fitted...
...appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...