Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
...straining ears heard things which gave satisfaction. The Brüsseler Zeitung admitted: "Doctor Goebbels has told truths which may come as a surprise to many. But why shouldn't he confess that war has become the shoe which pinches?" Said the Frankfurter Zeitung: "We are only beginning to feel total war in the west. Home has unavoidably become part of the front...
Crime. In Stockton, Calif., police followed a string leading from a burglarized fruit store to a rooming house, arrested William Briscoe, to whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer...
...reeceeeer--Mush!" Everybody suddenly turned on Vag and walked into him. He reversed as soon as he could, but the big guy behind him stepped on his heel and knocked his sneaker off. "Oh, that's all right," said the Vagabond, anticipating an apology, and knelt to put his shoe back on while the rest of his squad fought their way over or around him. The squad was far in the distance when another gang came stumbling over him from the east, and some old guy in boxing gloves threatened to turn him over to the F.B.I...
Significant item: when a nocturnal mouse invaded Company No. 1's quarters, there were no screams. A WAAC coolly slew it with a well-aimed shoe...