Word: shoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course I didn't say that business is worse either," he went on. "Business is good. But that doesn't matter much. And I didn't say I started out by selling shoe laces, but I don't mind that. I don't mind anything in a spirit of fun. I never sold a shoe lace, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I had. I woundn't care if you said I got my start driving a garbage truck. That's just as honest a way to earn money as selling bonds...
Turning to the subject of his own life history, he declared: "I started out selling shoe laces when eight years old, and gradually rose to be a tailor's assistant. When I was 17.1 set up a business of my own, and have gradually expanded it until now I sell my clothes to farmers all over the country at $20 less than my nearest rival...
...humanities, hustling young instructors of business administration have rigged up great bulletin boards, on which are posted at regular intervals, commendable--we suppose--samples of advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages...
...career of William M. Butler began in the public schools of New Bedford. At 16 he went into a shoe factory, at 21 to the Law School of Boston University. He began to practice in New Bedford, later in Boston. In 1902, he went into the textile business, constructing the Butler Mill in New Bedford. His connections increased. The Butler Mill was followed by the New Bedford Cotton Mills Corporation, the Quissett Mill, the Hoosac Cotton Mills, the Newmarket Mill, the Consolidated Textile Company. By 1912, he abandoned the law completely for business. From textiles he went into street railways...
Corrigan of Springfield carried individual honors in the Freshman meet. He led O'Neil by four seconds, his time being 19 minutes flat, but O'Neil broke a shoe-lace in the last half-mile and this was largely responsible for his defeat. The second Springfield man took fifth place and then after a long string of Crimson runners, three Springfield men took twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth...