Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walks into a restaurant and orders a vegetable dinner was pointed out accusingly by the National Shoe Retailers' Association in Manhattan last week, called the real culprit in high shoe price the association declared is coming. The less beef eaten, the less cattle killed, the higher the price of leather, the shoe men explained deftly. A 15% to 20% price increase was predicted because of the growth of vegetarianism...
Footlights is another play about the show business. It holds up to ridicule the efforts of a shoe-string producer to turn out a musical comedy. There are dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
...these two Italians, Nicola Sacco, had worked in a shoe factory and cultivated a garden in Stoughton, Mass., before he was sent to jail for murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...that this fellow had never been in one. It seems his mother was a beared lady. And she did whatever running there was to be done. Anyway he took a great fancy to my roommate and gave him a message to deliver to the American Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers at their next meeting...
...great Endicott-Johnson shoe factories near Binghamton, N. Y., many an employe of late has glowered over his work, has grumbled in locker rooms. About a fourth of the employes felt that they were not getting sufficient bonus. Too little of the company's profits were going to the workers. The other three-fourths, contented, mocked at the grumblers...