Word: insteps
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...igniting it! As the recipient of many a "hot foot" in all parts of the country, I can give you an expert's description of how it is applied: A book-match is stuck between the upper and sole of the shoe. It is usually placed in the instep on outer side of the shoe. Naturally, the sulphur end extends...
Below Bari, on Italy's instep, is the naval base of Taranto. There 50,000 people were waiting for Il Duce to hear what he had to say next. He was still remembering Caesar...
...summer evening last year a Manhattan newspaper carried a story that John Ringling was in a private hospital recovering from an amputation of both legs. Mr. Ringling, who was actually at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel recovering from an infected blister on his instep, was exceedingly angry. The huge moon-faced circus tycoon summoned the Press. Sitting in an armchair, he waved two thick, muscular legs at the reporters and shouted: "It's terrible to send out a story of that kind. I have many friends all over the country and they will be shocked when they...
...Ringling had to admit newsmen to his suite at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel, hard by the area which was destroyed by fire last week, before they were convinced that he had not had his legs amputated. Angrily he explained that an infected blister on his right instep had been treated, that was all. Now he and his wife had come for a fortnight's rest as guests of his good friend Samuel W. Gumpertz, president of Coney Island's Board of Trade. As for the amputation story, which had already gotten into print...
...Skirtlengths for daytime to the lower midcalf, for evening to the instep, or the floor...