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Word: shoeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catches him drinking from a concealed bottle of water. His apparently superhuman strength comes from this water and from energy tablets. In a burst of horror and rage his boatmates force him overboard, beat him under water. Rittenhouse delivers the coup de gráce-with the shoe from the amputated foot of the man the German saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped in later. He took a look around the Club Durant and bought a piece of it. Says Jimmy: "If I didn't open dat club, and become a boss, I wouldn't a stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...tire material is an elastic vinyl plastic called Plioflex, which Good year had already found good for many other uses, including a garden hose which is much lighter than rubber-and-fabric, shoe uppers that need no polishing and can be cleaned with a damp cloth, heels, raincoats, draperies, etc. The key to its tire-making properties is a new curing agent that makes it possible to vulcanize Plioflex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plastic Tire | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...even having had one drop of what you've been warned against drinking? Have you ever, in the midst of a party which you were really enjoying, suddenly had the desire to be "alone together" with someone? Have you ever caught yourself in the act of putting the right shoe on the left foot and vice-versa? Have you ever had any of these unusual experiences? Because if you have . . . brother, you've got the brother, you've got the symptoms...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 1/7/1944 | See Source »

...were tests for various pictures. Nothing came of them. Miss Garson sank into that terrifying limbo, known to many Hollywood newcomers, of the regularly paid, politely Forgotten Woman. Years before, she had injured her spine. It began to hurt her again. She wore one thick and one thin-soled shoe, hobbled like a crone, went outdoors only at night. For months, she says, "My only screen tests were X rays; my best parts, the spine." Doctors advised an "intricate operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ideal Woman | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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