Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks Fulton Bond padded about the building undetected. For a bed he had stacks of dusty documents and old law books. One night he fell asleep on a ledge. A shoe dropped off, was picked up by a policeman who did not bother to investigate its source. Early next morning Negro Bond hunted through offices until he found another pair of shoes which fitted him. Later he discovered a warm overcoat owned by the Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, appropriated...
...heavy dance-drama it rises to a genuine pitch of satirical excellence. "The Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet gives Mr. Bolger fine opportunity to demonstrate his terpsichorean genius and ends up in a screamingly funny bit of farce. This Bolger fellow hasn't a peer in soft-shoe dancing...
...philosopher do the philosophizing? . . . At a time like the present, when, experience forces us to seek a newer and more solid foundation, the physicist simply cannot surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...
...sins and indiscretions, the velocipede deserves no such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
During this year Sears will buy nearly $375,000,000 worth of merchandise. Many months may elapse between the ordering of the goods and the time they finally move from the shelves. Sears may, for instance, order $1,000,000 worth of shoes in February which will not be sold until September. Meanwhile the price of hides may decline, consequently depressing shoe prices so that for its February order of shoes Sears will get only $900,000. Contrariwise, hide (and hence shoe) prices may rise, in which case Sears will make an extra and unexpected profit. In any event, Sears...