Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter accompanying the circular was the following paragraph: ". . . Barton's two books interest and aid the rich and powerful; they help any cub salesman to get orders for shoe polish?and to work on principles that lead him toward riches and power...
...when asked about his rise to fame in Cambridge. Many years ago I considered going into medicine, but having a pathological mind I reached the plainclothes state before I knew it. Life is like that. For 41 years I have stuck to it though, beginning with the selling of shoe laces when eight years old. Ten years later I started a business of my own in Brattle Street, but have expanded rapidly. Once I was situated where Bond's Oyster Bar is on Bow Street, but 13 years ago I managed to get just around the corner' where...
...Story: In the Astor Hotel, Shanghai, a year ago, one Childs H. Baker Jr. called for a drink. A small native with shoe-button eyes trotted briskly up to him, pushing a white three-wheeled barrow; in the barrow were the materials for making drinks. Surprised by this display of ingenuity, Childs H. Baker selected a concoction of gin, lime-juices, ice & fizzy water. As he quaffed, he became thoughtful...
Nelson A. Rockefeller,* younger, is a sophomore at Dartmouth and has won a halfback position on the varsity soccer team. Last year, as a hazing stunt, he polished each & every shoe in his dormitory. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is a Brown graduate, class of 1897. John Davison Rockefeller Sr. had a public school education...
...fact that the original promoters had bought up considerable land--in Cambridge and nearby cities with a view to extensive real estate development work. The proposed private dormitory on DeWolfe Street flanking Westmorly Hall was part of this project. The land was purchased by what are commonly known as shoe string methods, however, and the mortgages which were taken out to finance the promoters scheme, have been fore closed. The property has now passed into other hands and the dormitory project has been definitely abandoned...