Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, where he does his weekend shopping, quiet Roland Hayes is less well known. Fortnight ago, his wife and nine-year-old daughter Africa (pronounced Afree-ka) went into Higgins Shoe Store, where they had traded for three years. It was a hot day and they sat in the second of six rows of seats, underneath a fan. There was a new clerk: he asked her to take a seat at the rear reserved for Negroes. Mrs. Hayes said she preferred to stay under the fan. The day was hot, tempers short. An argument started. Said usually even-tempered...
Enlisted Men. After dinner trim, healthy-looking boys flood through the high gate of the estate's massive stone wall, soft-shoe it down narrow sidewalks and attend the local pay-as-you-enter dances-the Town Hall or rest center-pick up local girls and stroll through the town park. Soldiers crowd local movie houses, though better and newer pictures are usually showing in the recreation building on the estate. But there is an agreement with British distributors that no civilian can see camp movies and boys cannot take girls. With natives or officers, all are amazingly polite...
...Albany, Ga. shoeshop reported an alltime high in low-heeled shoe sales...
Every year at midseason, baseball experts begin to pick the Rookie-of-the-Year. Last week those pickers felt like the old-woman-who-lived-in-a-shoe. One out of every four major-leaguers this year is a rookie. And one out of every four rookies looks like a manager's dream. Among the favored candidates this year are three left-handed hitters: Shortstop Johnny Pesky of the Boston Red Sox, First Baseman Les Fleming of the Cleveland Indians, Outfielder Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals...
Back of 65-year-old Mr. Murphy was a tradition of Republicanism. His father, a veteran of the Civil War, was a Lincoln man. Mr. Murphy himself, born on a New England farm, bootstrapped himself up to become a millionaire shoe manufacturer (J. F. McElwain Co.). Murphy was one of the few Republicans elected to a governorship during the 1936 Democratic landslide, was an able Governor for four years. But he decided last week that he had had all the GOPery that he could stand...