Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a suit in a Sacramento. Calif. court in which it was disclosed that Max Baer had made $500,000 in the last 18 months and spent it all, the heavyweight amused himself by putting matches in his lawyer's shoe and lighting them, by sticking gum in his lawyer's hair...
...last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead...
...morning last week Turnkey Sam Cahoon was distributing soap to the prisoners taking morning exercise. Suddenly, Dillinger's stick of wood, whittled into the shape of a pistol and blacked with shoe polish, poked into Turnkey Cahoon's back. Cowed by the wooden weapon, he yielded up the jail's keys, was forced to call the deputy sheriff, who called the warden. Within 15 minutes Dillinger had 33 trusties, prisoners, jailers, wardens and special guards locked securely in the cells...
...Melville Shoe...
...What a temptation to sit in silence and let the past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned...