Word: shoeless
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Battle of Boots. The guerrillas have few trucks and armored cars, have to make up the lack with bravery and footwork. In the ice and cold of the Balkan winter they need, first of all, good shoes. That is why, rear Lipovac in Western Bosnia, shoeless Partisans attacked a column of 400 lorries transporting German reinforcements, hit them fast and hard, then withdrew to the snowy mountains. Hundreds of Partisans at last had shoes, taken from Hitler's hated soldiers...
Most of Topaze's effectiveness is due to the wisecracky sayings of two simply drawn cartoon characters who appear in the magazine regularly and through whom Publisher Délano voices his own opinions. One is a bearded, elongated intellectual known as "Professor Topaze." The other is a shoeless, runty, ragged but usually grinning oaf called "Juan Verdejo." He represents Chile's lower classes, is so well known that all over Chile his name has come to be used much as "John Q. Public" is used...
...Last month Benny recorded for Commodore for the first time, in a little band including some of his own musicians, calling itself Mel Powell's Big City Seven. all the soloists were in form, but the real delight was to hear the Good Man, appearing under the name of Shoeless John Jackson to avoid contract difficulties with Columbia, playing better than I've heard him in years. the two best sides, "World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and the slow "Mood at Twilight," will probably be issued on the same record, and on each Goodman plays with all that...
Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...
...part of his job as Lux Radio's sage, De Mille has to calm such agitated performers. His favorite actors among those who have appeared in the show are Joel McCrea, Fredric March and Barbara Stanwyck, whom he describes as "sincere." Miss Stanwyck insists on going shoeless when she broadcasts...