Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish-imaginative, poetical, mystical novels in which metaphors skyrocketed and prose flickered so brightly that characters and plot were hard to make out. Julie is plain as an old shoe. For Author Stuart describes Julie's conquering of her fear of the world as a slow process, almost imperceptible, taking place principally when she is unaware...
...Bryn Mawr's maple-shaded campus last week gathered a clothing worker and a shoe worker from England, an automobile worker from Kansas City, a rubber worker from Akron-65 working girls all told. Their clothes did not come from Fifth Avenue nor their manners from a finishing school, but for seven weeks they will enjoy the luxury of Bryn Mawr's capitalistic dormitories, swimming pool, tennis courts and learning. They are students in the college's Summer School for Women Workers, which last week began its 18th year...
...totals about 19,000,000 a year and the biggest individual buyer of them is the only woman buyer in the industry. She is short, blonde Sue Fitzgerald, who got her start as a stenographer in a tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct...
...happy day was November 3, 1936 for a ruddy, 71-year-old Manchester, N. H. retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee...
Near dawn next morning. Father Cash made the "contact" on a lonely road. He handed a shoe box containing $10,000 worth of marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...