Word: shoebox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Years of the bad life have given the kinky Tockbridge a sexual grip over the vice president and half of Washington. She has a shoebox of films to prove it, too-- her way of combining business and pleasure. Along the way, she has also picked up liabilities, however, and as she closes in on the vice presidency, these return to haunt her. Her most dangerous enemy turns out to be the most unusual of all--an incorruptible, determined Justice Department lawyer who has uncovered an Agnewesque construction company plot...
frilly pink motif, TV set for watching soap operas, shoebox filled with eye makeup, copies of Seventeen magazine...
...generations, Chicagoans have lived in an atmosphere where politics was a poor immigrant's best route to success and wealth, where taking care of one's friends and relatives was a basic rule of government, where Secretary of State Paul ("Shoebox") Powell could boldly declare that "there's only one thing worse than a defeated politician, and that's a broke politician...
...officeholders, which failed to pass in the last General Assembly session, is expected to be re-introduced next month. And there is fresh pressure on racing associations to abide strictly by a regulation requiring them to list all stockholders, including their nominees. None of this would have pleased Paul ("Shoebox") Powell, who used to tell colleagues: "There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician, and that's a broke politician...
...shoebox under my arm contained a tangled reel, a 25? red-and-white bobber and a dozen rusty hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr., one of Florida's foremost bass fishermen, Sam unpacked armfuls of monogrammed rods and gleaming reels, a stack of Bassmaster magazines and a tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks...