Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane. So many people wrote for a description of cellophane that duPont had to print a special booklet...
Died. Joseph Bodine Terbell, 68, board chairman of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., director of Guaranty Trust Co., American Sugar Refining Co., et al.; in Manhattan...
Many boys, non-academic-minded but nevertheless possessed of plenty of practical intelligence, are dropped from preparatory schools and by tutoring and cramming, "shoe-horned" into college. Mr. Winsor has outlined the kind of secondary education which he believes these boys should receive. It would prepare them not for college but for life: yet probably many such students would find themselves qualifying, in spite of its main purpose, for easy entrance into college. New York Times...
...hundred men in the machine shop dropped their work, set fire to the place. Yelling, brandishing clubs, other inmates joined the riot, ignited the mess hall, two kitchens, laundry, paint shop, chair and shoe factories. The confusion increased. Eyes stinging with the yellow smoke, more than a thousand prisoners broke all the windows of the buildings which would not burn, destroyed their food supply, screamed, leaped, slipped, tumbled about in the thick mud left by melted snow. Finally Warden Hill walked out among them and ordered: "Go back to your cells or we'll fire." A Negro advanced threateningly...
...personality, background and ambition the teammates are as different as they appear on the platform. Pianist Maier, volatile, talkative, fairly bursting with energy, comes from Buffalo, the son of a retail shoe dealer. As a boy he had a burning desire to be a Presbyterian minister. He went to the New England Conservatory of Music instead, there met Lee Pattison of Eagle Grove, Iowa, who had always quietly intended being a musician. In Boston the friends gave their first two-piano recitals, then in 1914 went to Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel, famed Brahms expert who came...