Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into the bucket. He got 25? a night. When he asked for 50? and was refused, he went lightly on the string, cost the boss many a duck. He passed on to soda jerking, pharmacy, shoe selling, then started a one-room Bricklaying College of America with an unemployed Assyrian bricklayer as the faculty. Moving into show business he ran a road show whose star was a trained penguin, wrote gags for Hellzapoppinjays Olsen & Johnson. For the Chicago World's Fair he devised a moth...
...footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed by a reddish pageboy bob, Lily Pons is to all appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues...
Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...
...hours after the Chrysler contract was signed, Hudson Motor also granted its 12,000 workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...
...more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing...