Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tells about the Webers-Rickler, Sarah, Fanny, Golda, Bertha, Esther, Leah, Rae, Rebecca, Flora, Anna, George, Abraham, Solomon, Philip, Max and Joseph, little Joseph. They lived in a shoe on Mott Street, Manhattan. 'Nearby, Lew Schanfield tended a street soda-fountain for a man named Gump. One night. Fields taught Weber a dance step he knew. Another night, the little lights on the facade of a brand-new music hall pricked out a trade-name that had become a tradition: WEBER AND FIELDS. They owned the place...
...upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...
...Born Elizabeth Foster, she married one Isaac Vergoose (or Goose), a Boston widower "with eight or ten children," becoming Mother Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. *Catharine Smiley Cheatham, of Manhattan...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
...lawyer, and the partners of the banking firm of F. S. Mosely & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. for a conspiracy on the part of the defendant bankers and Mr. Herrick, their counsel, to get for themselves valuable manufacturing properties including the American Felt Co. and the Daniel Green Felt Shoe Co., belonging to the plaintiff and his partners...