Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are pictures of disheartened workers trudging the roads, looking not for a job but a place to live. A recorded voice intones: "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. . . ." From the walls placards answer: "For want of housing the worker is lost, for want of the worker production is lost." Then, a hot blast of air and two great, blood-red pictures -one of the burning U.S.S. Arizona, the other of a little girl wringing her hands over her bullet-riddled sister in Poland...
...Willkie-ish liberal, "Olive," as she is called in South Dakota, measures 5 ft. 10 in stocking feet, weighs a solid 193 lb., wears a size eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield...
Within three months or less there will be no more new metal ash trays, no metal clothes trees or coat hangers or curtain rods, no metal doormats, hand mirrors, hat racks, picture frames or shoe trees, no more metal wastebaskets or clothes hampers or percolators, mixers, whippers and juicers. There will be no more metal, in short, for a WPB list of 76 classes of adjuncts to easy living...
...What matters are the delicious beads of humor strung on the thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes the Little Fellow. "Give it two more minutes." He serves it up with a shoestring for potatoes, munches...
Chaplin spent $125,000 refurbishing The Gold Rush, which had cost $2,000,000 to make. While editing out whole sequences and shortening others, he added film which had been cut from the original version, lengthening, in particular, the shoe-stewing sequence and another in which Big Jim, dizzy with hunger, sees the Little Fellow as an enormous chicken...