Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romance and daring of his trade. In later years he hugely enjoyed Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, and was delighted when his laboratory-at his prompting-found that one of Bond's fictional weapons, a spring-loaded knife embedded in the heel of a shoe, actually worked...
...never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after Walter Levi, known back then for having a phone at home. To say ball for good, because the old standard of quality was the Ball-Band shoe, with the red ball...
...European Shoe," for example, might be considered a parody of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." The shoe, like the blackbird, incongruously becomes the focal point for all the varieties of life...
...European Shoe is constructed of grass and reed, bound up and wound around so that it may slip easily over the wearer's head...
...European Shoe spends summers in delightful ways. A lady feels its subtle and unexpected pressure the length of her decolletage. (It winters in pain...