Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the rider was lost; for want of a rider, the battle was lost; for want of a battle, the kingdom...
...want of lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...
...shoe manufacturer, Zeckendorf went to public schools in New York and to New York University. For a dozen-odd years in & out of various realty firms, he had been only a moderate success: he didn't know enough of the right people. When, in the course of one of his deals, he ran into W. & K., it was like loose lightning being drawn to a lake...
...weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there the conversation hardly runs beyond static monosyllables in praise of one Williams, a baseball player from San Diego...
...tennis team made out slightly more successfully, winning from Bowdoin 8-1, losing 7-5 to United Shoe, and mastering Lincoln...