Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal character is a Miss Shoe, a birdlike spinster with insatiable appetite for gossip and detective work. For this part Jean Cadell, who played it first in London, was imported. She gave a fluttery, decisive and yet half frightened impersonation, which promptly included itself in the half dozen examples of the season's finest acting. Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, as the fugitive couple, assisted with their usual eventful excellence...
...Woodrow Wilson sought, 15 years ago, to apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies. The Harvard surveyors left the shoe on the other foot. Their drastic vertical division of the student body needed in no wise to disrupt the Harvard club system, seen as a valuable series of horizontal planes upon which men of kindred interest meet from choice, just as they do in after-college life...
...stair creaked. . . . The sound rang through the empty house like a shout. On the dim stairway a shoe was hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding...
Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass...
Later in the week she was scheduled to sing in Brooklyn. She thought of the 2,000 people who had bought their tickets. She had a foot and ankle so badly swollen that she could not get on her shoe, so sore that she could not" bear any of her weight on them...