Word: shoelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
...badly fed and all but naked. . . . Before you are great cities and rich provinces; there we shall find honor, glory and riches." Thus spoke young General Bonaparte to 30,000 miserable French troops at Nice one day in March 1796. The shoeless Army with half-starved horses drawing the scant artillery marched past the Alps, through Piedmont, and onto the lush plains of Lombardy. An unbroken series of victories-Lodi, Arcola, Rivoli-and Northern Italy was Napoleon's first conquest...
...that it was not extraordinary for horses to be ridden into hotels; for the air to be filled day and night with loud martial music; for giant firecrackers with sputtering fuses to appear in the streets and in department stores; for substantial visitors from out of town to sleep shoeless in the lobbies of big hotels, or drunken on marble floors. To an Englishman used to trim and efficient bobbies, it was astonishing to see the police of a city famous for its traffic control forced to stand aside while paunchy men in blue uniforms stood at intersections imperiously directing...
Stretched shoeless on his bed in a Chicago hotel one day last week, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend received the Press, thoughtfully rejected a suggestion that he might be the next President of the U. S. "I wouldn't be a candidate," mused the 69-year-old onetime country doctor, "except on one condition-That I could unite the people and resign the day after election. As long as I'm able to wiggle, I'd like to be able to do a little dictating to the President, and I think I could do that better...
...arrested next night for tossing liquor bottles, dishes, a suitcase and a typewriter out of the apartment window. Subdued with a nightstick, the gibbering Representative, shoeless and stripped to the waist, was carted to jail, spent two hours there before his secretary appeared with $25 bail...