Word: footboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handkerchiefs Ready. A typical sob-coaxer is entitled Doctor Marigold. No doctor. Marigold is actually an itinerant peddler hawking his household wares from the footboard of his cart. His termagant wife cruelly beats their little daughter. During one of his spiels to the assembled yokelry, the wan and feverish tot dies in his arms. Turning on his wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready...
...conformist boxes" I've seen; but why would Mr. Maass strip them of their furniture? Doesn't he know the pleasures of the Victorian bed? The sturdy high back that holds you up for the leisurely joy of reading or eating breakfast in bed. And the high footboard that fences the covers in. As for the overstuffed chairs: I'll vote for them over the scratchy straw, sagging canvas and thin veneer of today's contour sitting devices. I'd like to know whose odd contours shaped them...
...mind, it was also too big to fit properly in the President's bedroom. Last week it had been relegated to a guest room, and Truman was luxuriating in a modern three-quarter width affair-"a kind of Hollywood bed"-with a low headboard and no footboard...