Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeat at the hands, or feet of Albie Booth, et al. The Crimson was highly favored that day and L'il Albie hadn't been doing so well that season. Wood still had his passing arm and there was Hageman to receive the heaves. But Albie and his little shoe outwitted them all, and sent the highly-touted home forces off the field tasting the bitterness of defeat for the first time that season...
...Miss Juliana Cutting; a lighted red lamp or lantern; the red carnation of Mr. Clifton Webb at the Music Box; the initialed handkerchief of New York's most charming and honest banker; three red hairs from a lady's head; a mauve comb; a live monkey; a shoe of Jimmy Durante; any unused foreign stamp; a bicycle...
...carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets, bottle caps. The faith of Kermit Roosevelt et al in tacks and bottle caps was partly justified by Atlas' earning for the first six months: $20,000 profit against a $40,000 deficit in the first half...
...uniforms, including pants jerseys, pads, and stockings, are given out at the start of the season, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and game days, when sweat clothes are changed, an equal number of suits of underwear are issued to the players. Added to this are 600 pairs of shoes: 275 helmets, which are collected after each practice or game: 200 hoods, on practice days, and from 40 to 50 on game days: 125 blankets, also collected each day: and, during the season, 25 gross of shoe laces, used in shoes, leg lacings, and shoulder pads. Twenty football's are given...
Withint the Field House, 800 towels are passed out each day. These towels are laundered outside of the University and are delivered in rolls consisting of 25 towels per roll. All other laundry work, as well as shoe repairing and tailoring, is done at Soldiers Field...