Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aggravated athlete's foot. This may extend wherever the shoe touches...
Most of us have by now become accustomed to the day-long bleating from across the Charles to "report to the duty office," "tie your shoe-laces," etc. The boys who sleep in McCulloch, however, have decided that it's going too far when they send an expeditionary force across that same Charles at 0620 armed with drums and bugles. "Mahsh" Dranetz and the Boz (he's our law student from South Bend, you will recall) are all for setting up machine guns at the crossing; bleary-eyed Bienvenu is for something more subtle; such as blowing up the bridge...
...Visitors, as they pass through the entrance vestibule, will be automatically suction-cleaned of clothing dust and shoe dirt...
...just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls...
Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft...