Word: foot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
Friends of the Supreme Court in this case were SEC, ICC, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Douglas thought the Court's friends were right, that the common stockholders had pulled a fast one on the preferred, ruled that they could get their foot inside the door of the reorganized company only if they paid their way in with new money. The decision thus strengthened the hands of bondholders, preferred stockholders in future reorganizations. Wrote Mr. Justice Douglas...
...some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything worth saying, he would mimeograph it and send it to anyone who wanted it. Last year over 5,000 clients paid...
Drums Along the Mohawk (20th Century-Fox) continues Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck's probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal...
...bowels. Author Sanderson went cautiously inside. Clusters of giant grey bats whirred out of potholes. Crabs the size of footballs, their eyes bugging like periscopes, squatted on the floor, waved huge pincers, hissed like snakes. A luminescent lizard slithered into a dark crevice. An enormous red rat nudged his foot. Giant spider-centipedes scuttled across his hands. Blood-sucking vampire bats gnashed from black ledges...