Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrictions. He's been in the hole [solitary confinement] several times for talking. But whoever the convict was that said Al was losing his mind over it was absolutely wrong. He's not cracking up. He worked first in the dry cleaning shop and then, I think, in the shoe shop. Now he's been promoted to the library...
Dynamic, cerebral Henry Ittleson, born in Berlin, brought up in Manhattan and Kansas, was a young executive of much promise in Colonel David May's shoe & clothing store in St. Louis when he started his finance company in 1908. Colonel May and his partners put up the money. By 1915 a large part of Henry Ittleson's finance business, chiefly in furniture and machines, was coming from the East. Accordingly, one Saturday noon he piled his filing cabinets into an express car, his employes into a Pullman and the following Monday morning opened shop in Manhattan. Around...
...Italy's No. 1 munitions maker Mussolini in order that he may sell arms to himself, or 2) the shoe tycoons of Ethiopia who perspicaciously realize that one dose of Italian foot-scorching gas will send the entire Ethiopian army rushing to the shoe stores...
Final result: "At eighteen years, this girl, who had been greatly handicapped by paralytic disability and crippling deformities, was by no means a perfectly efficient machine, but was then able to walk with one cane and a slightly raised shoe. Had she not been so decidedly overweight, she could probably have discarded the one cane. As it was, she said she could walk half a mile...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...