Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Limmer establishment works very much on the old world system, with the two sons, both unmarried, living at home and working with Papa and Mama in the shop. Peter Jr. estimates it would take one of them alone two full days to make a pair of boots. The shoes are easier and the Limmers can make about three pairs...
...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
...family is a happy one. Peter spends most of his evenings watching television and drinking beer, but complains "that was I don't ever get to bed." When occasionally he considers his $45 boots underpriced in comparison to New York maker's, Mama claims "We don't make a lot of money but we have a good life and lots of friends." Everything would be complete for Peter with a trip back to the Old Country. "I'd like to go. You buy the tickets, and I'll buy all the beer...
Freshman soccer players will be hoping to make it four straight game without a loss when they entertain Brown's team at noon today on the Business School Field...
Saltonstall, United States Senator and former Governor of Massachusetts, speaking on the "Lawyer in Politics" at Langdell Hall, said the public is benefitted because the man who has studied law has a knowledge of the constitution and can therefore make the legislative bodies adhere more strictly to its rules, rather than letting the courts bear the whole burden of upholding...