Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat duel at Cannes with Nicholas Zographos-and afterward marked cards were found in the baccarat shoe. Recklessly the Opposition Press in Paris hurled charges at Premier Chautemps that the Founder-Swindler had had a card as an inspector in the French Secret Service, that this alone had stopped French detectives from exposing him, that he had not fled last week but was still in Paris "under...
Extracts from petitions to the Council for reimbursement show that one William Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
...bandit jumped into the automobile of Chicago Shoe Tycoon Irvinq S. Florsheim, forced his chauffeur to drive around while he took $400 from Mr. Florsheim, a $2,000 mink coat and $10 from his wife...
Since life tends to degenerate into a simple automatism, in which one makes no question why, and allows habit to answer for when and allows habit to answer for when and where and how, consure of minor mannerism should not be caustic; all men put the shoe upon the same foot first year in and year out. It is for this reason if for no other that the sceptical soul feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these...
...Farm Credit Administration. Budgeter Douglas, a "hard money" man, was very close to the President as late as last May when Eugene Black was made Governor of the Federal Reserve, and Dr. Sprague was called in as a prime Treasury adviser. "Lew" Douglas was largely responsible for shoe-horning his "hard money" friend. Dean Acheson, a young Washington lawyer, into the Treasury when the President was looking for someone to help Mr. Woodin...