Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punishment rooms). In their blue shorts and jackets, with house neckties of red, blue or yellow, the Lowdham boys might almost be mistaken for public school products. Housemasters get to know the boys individually, appoint house leaders and captains to keep order. The boys learn such things as cooking, shoe-repairing, painting, reading...
...early witness, a Negro veteran, said that white men had whipped him with a piece of cable after he had tried to register for Mississippi's white primary and had then given him a ride back to town. (This brought guffaws from the spectators.) Then a shoe repairman and a taxi driver admitted that they had each received $25 for warning fellow Negroes away from the polls. A white Catholic priest, who had asked polling officials why his parishioners were not allowed to vote, had received the answer: "No Negroes are going to vote in Pass Christian [Miss.] unless...
...like the old saying, "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost," and so on up to the loss of a kingdom. But it worked in reverse, like this: the Big Four's Foreign Ministers in Manhattan could write all five peace treaties (Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland) if they could write the Italian treaty; they could write the Italian treaty if they could agree on Trieste; they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss...
...Shoe Fits--At the Shubert. A new musical based on the familiar fable of Cinderella. The fairy tale has been transformed into a general hodge-podge of ribald humor, some of its funny and some not so good. Florence Desmond gives the show life with her slyly amusing touches transported from England, but the dialogue is weak. All in all, it's about a 50-50 chance...
...election campaign, can cite this same man for contempt and force him to waste his and the government's time with a costly contempt suit, and can deprive the witness of counsel in the manner of the better Inquisitors, it is time Americans look closely to discover where the shoe fits...