Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ronald Wilson Reagan's conservatism reflects his Main Street origins. Son of a shoe salesman, he was reared in a succession of small Illinois towns: Tampico, where he was born on Feb. 6,1911, Galesburg, Monmouth and Dixon. As a freshman at 250-student Eureka College, a Disciples of Christ school, he was one of the leaders of a week-long student strike that forced college officials to rescind cuts in the educational program and loosen puritanical rules that forbade smoking, drinking and dancing. An indifferent student, he concentrated on debating, dramatics and football...
...ridicule is a shoe that fits so many feet it scarcely matters which one it was taken from. No prior knowledge of Mary Margaret McBride is necessary to enjoy their Mary McGoon, with her recipe for frozen ginger ale salad. One need never have heard Mary Noble, Backstage Wife to enjoy the hilariously muddled banalities of their Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife...
George W. Spartichino is one of those ethnic candidates that every Cambridge City Council election seems to attract. Even though he is running on a shoe-string budget--his bumper stickers are the left-overs of former Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn's governors campaign that have been stripped clean and reprinted--Spartichino insists that the north Cambridge voters that kept him in the State Legislature from 1956 to 1966 can send him to the council...
...What do you want?" "I am the shoemaker from Santarém, "he replies. A second man appears. "Did you bring the measurements?" the second man asks. "Yes, I have them." Vaz then produces the insole of a shoe with part of it missing. Manuel pulls the other part out ofhis pocket. The pieces match. "Enter...
...friend of mine hit on something when he said, 'Frigid people really make out.' He's right: they really can and they really do." The best proof of this Warholism is, of course, Andy Warhol himself, who in the 20 years since his days as a shoe illustrator for I. Miller has managed to parlay his cool into one of the social myths of our time. During the '60s, Warhol's silence about himself and his knowingly dumb utterances about the culture he helped form-"Pop art is liking things"-underwrote his durability...