Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...
...Among White House visitors last week were: Edward N. Hurley (onetime Shipping Board Chairman), who discussed the automobile business; Mayor Fred Bauer of Lynn, Mass., who discussed the shoe business; Jules Sauerwein, foreign editor of Le Matin, Paris, who discussed French business; National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, who discussed business and politics. The President also received Sosislav Antoniyevitch, new Minister from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who presented letters of credence...
Fifteen hundred Detroit grocers, butchers, shoe store keepers and retail sellers of this-and-that railed at Henry Ford last week because his commissary stores were selling commodities to the general public - their customers. Mr. Ford's storekeepers (who sold $12,000,000 worth of goods last year) promised thenceforth to sell only to Ford employes, never to their neighbors...
...analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts, and prevented his blood oxygenating itself. He was blue because he was cyanosed. (This is an occasional accident...
...England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas...