Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thunder of your own thoughts. I've seen it happen to a lot of guys, and I'm not saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate being carved on the pyramids...
Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
Workers who were once beholden to their bosses were not much more than industrial serfs, says Boyer. They lived in fear and depended on the big smile and the well-shined shoe for their future. Now they depend on their union, which means that they depend on themselves. This change in the workers' mentality is the democratic dynamic of our time. Some day historians will note the change, and this skillfully written book will be one of their sources...
...could hear cars and trucks above him on the highway. They were only 50 feet away. He yelled again & again. The sun came up and dried the night damp, but it burned his right foot-his shoe had been torn off. Nobody answered him all day, and at night he was cold again...