Word: clubfoot
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They just stand. Shoes go by, precise shoes, sprawling de- liberate shoes, hobbledehoys, clubfoot, no sock and bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent...