Word: shoepolish
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...STOP!" SHRIEKS ADELAIDE Bobo, "You're too pale." Running to a shoeshine box which rests at the foot of a coffin, she grabs a disc of shoepolish and proceeds to darken the black actor's face. He stands patiently while the smirking Miss Bobo spits and polishes him to the proper hue. As ringmaster Archibald exhorts...
Louisiana has been bubbling lately with gas, natural and political. Permits have been issued to big manufacturers of carbon black to erect plants in the state's rich gasfields. At such plants, millions of cubic feet of natural Louisiana gas have been burned to make shoepolish and other products. Louisianians believe this process is wasteful and, anyway, they want Louisiana gas for Louisiana, and not for "great corporate interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking...
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