Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...
...Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said Flint & Co.) to industries which make bathing suits, shoe laces, automobile tires, underwear, rugs, laces and electrical wires...
...ribbon round toe of his shoe...
...hero, Baron Cushendun, rose and towered six feet six over the wide horse shoe table in the League Glass Room. With biting innuendo and battering logic for more than an hour he attacked the Soviet draft convention article by article, and finally in principle...
Instead of putting their money in a shoe, cautious people often buy bonds. There is a feeling of safety in a crisp bond; it is backed up by buildings, lands, machinery, steel, coal?things. People can go and see or touch the things that make their bonds secure. But what about newspaper bonds? Only a fraction of their security is based on buildings and presses; the rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper...