Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached the side alley that went down to the stage door, where he was assaulted by a host of theatre friends and colored shoe-shine boys. Passing through them with hurried, friendly greetings, he answered one more question before going up to his dressingroom in time for the half-hour curtain call. When asked whether or not he considered Harvard tolerant to the colored race, he insisted...
...wall separating the front and back rooms a ¼ h.p. electric motor runs a fan that cools off the front room. And off the other end of the motor, someone installed a shoe brush with brown polish...
Kichisaburo's first fight, it happens, was in defense of the West. The day he wore his first pair of Occidental shoes the school bully razzed him. Nomura pulled off one shoe, beat the bully with it until the shoe was unwearable. But his thrifty mother had declared that the shoes must last six months, so for six months Kichisaburo clumped around in one western shoe, one Japanese clog...
...Arthur Rubloff of Chicago got a present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
...shoe manufacturer, Jimmy was born in Beirut, Syria and brought to the U.S. as a child by his parents, who chose Newport, R.I. as a new home town. Times were tough, and on Jimmy's graduation from grammar school his father told him he could not continue his education, must become an apprentice barber. Instead Jimmy worked his way through high school, won an appointment to Annapolis...