Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strauss's book mingles personal history with some memorable portraits of leading politicians and scientists. At 21 Strauss was already rubbing shoulders with them. The son of the vice president of a prosperous shoe company in Richmond, Strauss decided to seek his fortune in Washington in 1917 instead of going to college. He stationed himself outside the hotel room of Herbert Hoover, who had also just come to Washington to head the wartime Food Administration. When Hoover showed up, Strauss brashly asked him for a job. Said Hoover laconically: "Take off your coat...
...Mother Kelly's doorstep, down paradise row I sit along of Nelly, she sits along of Joe. She's got a little hole in her frock, A hole in her shoe, a hole in her sock, Where her toe peeps through...
...rubber trademarked heel was found on the floor of the Museum. It was also sent to Washington for analysis, and police are attempting to check local shoe distributors and manufacturers...
...someone buys a drink, the girl gets a colored stirrer." a witness lectured. "She puts it in her bra, her stocking or her shoe. At the end of the night, she turns the stirrers in for cash.'' Philadelphia Police Inspector Frank Rizzo told of boozy seminars with the girls of his city: "They start on regular liquor. Then they move up to champagne. Of course, the champagne is usually wine and soda.'' "Johns" who balk at the swizzle swindle are promptly returned to their senses by a successful threat: "We'll tell your wife...
...hard fact is that continuing deficits ultimately end in bankruptcy." Although Byrd is considered old shoe by the New Frontier, he has for almost 30 years kept a discerning eye on the Government's fiscal policies-and knows a bit about such matters. His remarks reflect a general edginess about the Administration's fiscal policies. H. Ladd Plumley, new president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, last week expressed the feeling that the Kennedy Administration was really trying to get along with business...