Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demand for leather is also slowly improving. War stocks at post-war inventories are now practically all distributed, and tanners are gradually cheering up. However, leather substitutes have cut heavily into the business, and the recent advent of female shoe style employing little or no leather has alone been a blow...
...Coolidge and her son John paid a visit to a shoe factory at Lynn, saw how shoes are constructed. Only women's shoes are made there, but the manufacturer measured the young man's feet and promised him a pair of shoes in three days...
...escaped the vigilance of the triple guard-policemen, secret service men, Marines. The President called his Secret Service men; they called the local fire department, which removed the trespasser from a high tree, squealing. He was identified by his collar as a monkey belonging to a retired shoe manufacturer dwelling nearby...
...large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo I let fly a potato at a bibulous shoe merchant just as he was turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind back; and had he but shut the outer hand opportunely, he would have found himself in unexpected possession of a perfectly good tuber. It is needless to observe that, during the rest of my boyhood...
...about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer blankets for Pullman cars, wash suits for city men in summer...