Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...more composed, after she had telephoned the Palace." French reporters discover that Mrs. Simpson's terrier is named "Folly." They get Mrs. Simpson's chauffeur to say that she has framed on her mantel in London the Chicago Tribune's famed Cinderella Simpson cartoon: in a shoe store Empire Salesman Edward VIII with the Imperial State Crown on his head kneels and offers a diamond-studded slipper to customer Mrs. Simpson whose smile is somewhat condescending (TIME...
...Formal shoes include patent leather pumps and the straight plain toe patent-leather shoe...
...night in 1898 a shoe salesman and a paint salesman found themselves assigned the same room in a hotel in Boscobel, Wis. Said Shoe Drummer John H. Nicholson: "My custom is to read a portion of God's word every night and give thanks for God's care over me during the day." Replied Paint Drummer Samuel Eugene Hill: "I, too, am a Christian. Let us have our devotions together...
...background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy in the orphan home and win the love of Crosby. By that time even such good songs as One, Two- Button Your Shoe and Let's Call a Heart a Heart are beginning to suffer from the audience's apprehension that the next sequence may be pennies from heaven in a submarine, or pennies from heaven with the Spanish Revolution. Best bit: black Louis Armstrong with his band rendering "Skeleton...