Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snowball wanted, more than anything else, to bring the best Negro athletes in contact with big leaguers. And this, he claims, was "trying to mix oil with water." In 1918 he acquired a wife who objected to his wanderings from laundry to pressing, to shoe-cleaning, and shoes to baseball, with punches peppered over all. But by now, he says, "she's gotten used to it, though we still have to buy her silence by getting her tickets to the Harvard football games...
Frank Consentino, who has been in the shoe business for 20 years, though he is only 28 years old, and who boasts that he is a member of the third generation of living shoemakers, runs the repair shop. Frankie prides himself not only on a complete array of modern repairing machines, but also on his own many inventions fitted to the specific needs of athletic equipment...
...accosted in your own room by a strange individual trying to sell you a magazine subscription, shoe him away and call a yard cop. He will tell you he is working his way through college, which is the truth. But he doesn't pay any tuition, gets through college in a week, and collects fabulous sums of money...
...scoured libraries and picture collections looking for likenesses and descriptions of the Constitution's 39 signers. To make the picture as accurate as possible they gathered mountains of data on costumes and furniture. When Artist Christy actually got around to painting the picture, he knew from warts to shoe buckles how every one of his historical sitters looked, except two. He made up a face for Jacob Broom; he painted Thomas FitzSimons with his face obscured by the upraised arm of a colleague...
...Manila went 238 gilt jeweled watches (value: $3,022), 46 gold jeweled watches (value: $2,504), serum blood grouping, parts for pyrometer equipment, examination papers, 826 feet of motion-picture film, fountain pens and pencils, TIME magazine, shoe-machine awls and needles, Leghorn hatching eggs (to improve the island strain), two surgical stockings, orchids, many another item...