Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furia (Italian). A refreshingly candid, rather steamy, essentially adolescent film about rural adultery, with good work by Isa Pola as the frankest movie temptress in years. Earnest, but overrated by those who think that the Italians (Open City, Shoe Shine, etc.) can do no wrong...
...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...
...deadly eye and a soft southpaw shot that helped him pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop to win the game...
...clock, central Manhattan subway stations were jammed with pushing, gesticulating throngs. Shoe stores were invaded by snow-powdered hikers in search of rubbers and galoshes. Hotels were besieged; and a backwash of the stranded headed for bars, all-night movies and the apartments of friends. Meanwhile the Fire Department was struck by the horrible thought-it couldn't move its trucks. Its engine-house gongs rang out the "five sixes" (all firemen report for duty). It got radio stations to ask the citizenry kindly not to let their houses burn down...
...multiplication tables. They talked glibly of having mastered "banking and discount," but most of them still ate with their fingers. He taught them how to wash, to brush their teeth, to plow and plant ("trained farmers are as much needed as trained teachers"), how to make bricks and shoe horses. Then he taught them how to read and write, and something of history and literature. It was his idea to turn out, not scholars or statesmen, but skilled technicians and prosperous farmers. "No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world," he once wrote, "is long...