Word: parings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop at 6 a.m. and another an hour and a half later...
...educators had only been toying with the idea, but last week, at a National Education Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
...also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles Boyer and John Dall, and riffles through some quick shots of famous playwrights who, accurately enough, look like middle-aged gentlemen as well able to cut a dividend as to pare a script...
...Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz (The Plow That Broke the Plains) got him to compose their sound tracks. A suite from Thomson's latest film score, for Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story, has already been given in concert form by the Philadelphia Orchestra...