Word: footings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most independently and most fairly judged. "The Stickit Minister," Mr. Crocket's best achievement in this kind, has a good deal of humor, pathos, and homespun truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book...
...USEFUL little book which should be in the hands of the members of every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive...
...USEFUL little book which should be in the hands of the members of every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive...
...north ferry, leaving near the foot of Hanover street, lands close by the works...
...USEFUL little book which should be in the hands of the members of every intelligent household is "The Human Foot and the Art of Shoeing," by Dr. Samuel Appleton, author of "The Hygiene of the Foot." It contains a vast amount of practical common sense compressed into a comparatively brief space, and the advice it gives, in the clearest and most coherent manner, is invaluable. The explanation of the structure of the foot, with accompanying cuts, must convince any unprejudiced person that the present method of making shoes is, in a great majority of cases, foolish, injurious and destructive...