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Word: bootshop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery carried a pair of worn boots into Hoby's Bootshop in London's West End on Friday, asked for repairs by "next Tuesday . . . I'll be needing them in Germany." Hoby's-recalling that Wellington wore his Hoby boots at Waterloo, that Nelson died in his at Trafalgar-broke its two-to-three-weeks-for-repairs rule, promised delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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