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...same as that of a racehorse with which he is familiar. There is a gag with fishcakes and a dog, and a gag with an exploding cigar. Each one is carefully constructed, a little mechanical, but irresistible and in the best Lloyd manner. The theme-line is "Madame, your instep is far too beautiful to be spoiled by a short-vamp shoe." Feet First takes rank with the best Lloyd shows?Speedy, Safety Last, The Freshman, Welcome Danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Scandalized Anglo-Saxon correspondents reported, last week, that the shoe shop 01 one smart Parisian .business, snatches ;has doubled sales within the past month, simply _ because each salesman now raise- feminine foot with gallant yet reverent gesture and implants kiss just above toes on instep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business Snatching | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...February 23.-- E. M. Wells, captain and star hurdler of the Dartmouth track team, will probably not be able to compete in the Triangular track meet between Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell in the Arena Saturday night. Wells is at present in the hospital suffering from an injury to his instep which he received as a result of a fall in the New York Athletic Club Games Monday evening. Hot compresses are being constantly applied in an effort to reduce the swelling, which persists despite all treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH PESSIMISTIC ABOUT WELLS' CONDITION | 2/24/1928 | See Source »

Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Measles | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...hours later Baron Hayashi announced, "At my urgent appeal His Royal Highness has consented to remain within his room for several days. The tendon of his left instep has been slightly strained. His Royal Highness has expressed his determination to resume his skating and skiing at the earliest possible moment, since he intends to leave Muerren shortly to visit the League of Nations at Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Yasuhito | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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