Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be granted that this over specialization in the latter part of one's course is becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude...
...only scar I bear,' he said, 'is on my foot. I could show to you now if I were to take off my shoe. I got it by stepping on a red-hot iron chip in my bare feet at my father's blacksmith shop...
...with their own methods of shooting and blackjacking. This bravura policy is said to have caused Mr. Golding's removal. Previous to Chicago, he had operated in Cleveland, where he secured 112 indictments. The Golding fame rests largely on the Golding flair for secrecy. But never did soft shoe men indulge in such a brouhaha of publicity as did Mr. Golding in Philadelphia. He issued detailed announcements. He had his sleuths grouped and photographed at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. It was obvious that Mr. Golding wanted to give Philadelphia's 'leggers an even break. People said...
...between coming and going were thus described by sardonic Reporter Edwin C. Hill in the sedate and newsy Evening Sun: "Having arranged for the movie men and the talkie-movie men and the common or garden camera men and some 15 reporters to crowd, without the aid of a shoe horn, into the reception room of her Hotel McAlpin-suite just before noon today, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously marcelled, dressed...
...White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...