Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild Men." In a solemn ceremony "in the royal palace at Rabat, the proud Emir of Trarza symbolically placed his title "at the Sultan's feet." "Our ancestors," said the Mauritanians, "recognized the authority of the Great Sultan Moulay Ismail during the reign of the French King Louis XIV." Replied King Mohammed: "We are the sons of the same country, our beloved Morocco...
...whole country has a fixation on shoes. Moscow is the city where, if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. Clothes have no shape; but then neither have most Russian women. Men are short and squat, built like square corks. Moscow would look 100% better if every citizen lost...
Very few Americans in Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
...fills an order for 43 plastic bathtubs made out of Volupton ("It feels like folks") for an Indian ma-harajah's palace. Poor Bill's maharajah turns out to be a telephone-booth Indian who suddenly folds his palace and silently steals away. On little elephant feet, an unfunny love interest clomps its way through the otherwise funny book. And occasionally, 37-year-old Author Grisman lets overwriting interfere with the reading. At his best, Grisman neatly catches the self-mocking nuances of Jewish-flavored humor. His spirited air of general irreverence gives Early to Rise the eloquence...
...intermission, sighting Cuevas in the crowd. Lifar rushed up to him, theatrically flung a scented handkerchief at the marquis' exquisitely shod feet. Painfully, the ancient marquis bent down, picked up the handkerchief, flourished it in Lifar's face while photographers' flashbulbs flared. Said a bystander: "I thought they were embracing." Au contraire...