Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...odds the largest political party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe by the King! Those statesmen who have served Egypt best have all been discharged like servants. I will continue to struggle for this unhappy land of Egypt until the will of Allah be done...
...Garbo of the Pulpit" and the "Terror of the Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher. They declaim too much." But two years ago a shoe salesman named Wilbur Eugene Langkop heard Evangelist Utley preach in Quincy, 111., drove her to Hannibal, Mo., followed her thereafter on the preaching tours she makes in the Midwest, since she has no permanent pastorate. Ignoring her advice, Salesman Langkop last week plighted his troth to the Terror...
...Park, 111. shoe Storekeeper Sam Ragalie boasted to a customer that he had just saved $150 from gunmen by keeping it in a shoebox, not in his till. Few minutes later the customer returned with a pistol, demanded and was given the shoebox...
...gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort of man" now past 50, once a powerful politician adept at the chess game of Chinese politics, who became a revolutionist in 1922 and gave his fortune to the Reds. Another was Lin-Piao, 29-year-old head of the Red Academy and conceded...
...Shoe-Builder Burger received over a column program credit in the Oct. 23 issue of the New Yorker...