Word: shoehorning
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...controls. Take sizes, for instance. Before the war we were making a nice job -6 ft. 6 by 26. Along comes the war, and the Government tells us what to make-6 ft. 3 by 22 was the largest. Son, the morticians had to fit them in with a shoehorn. All because the Government didn't know people had been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn't get them any more, so we had to use wood. Now, you tell...
Soon afterwards, on a trip to Italy, Salesman Saitz thought he saw a way to shoehorn Fleetwood out of its trouble. He asked the American Military Government to start Fleetwood again by putting up enough cash to ship the equipment to Trieste, where good labor was plentiful and cheap, and industry was needed. Saitz teamed up with Frederick A. McLaughlin, 40, a publicity man and an old Boston friend, and Thomas McCann, 34, a onetime U.S. vice consul in Rome, and formed the Trieste Shoe Co. Last week, after nine months of negotiations, Saitz put over his complicated deal...
...have to smuggle mood into an American picture. Mood itself, American audiences will not swallow. You have to be extremely clever. You do it with a shoehorn. For instance, a European opens his picture with a shot of the clouds. Then another, very beautiful. Then a third. The audience accepts it as part of the mood...
...Well is virtually an encyclopedia of Hindu manners and practices, revealed through the lives of a poor Hindu family in a dry and dusty village in one of the states of Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest acts of daily life. Author Wernher, raised...
...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...