Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Hoover was born 27 years ago in Cuba, N. Y. where her father, a civil engineer, was laying railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating...
...construction material, the North Haven's 6,000-ton cargo includes every imaginable item needed to keep the men on the islands supplied with life's necessities during their lonely tenure. Some of the items: razor blades, soap, safety pins, flashlights, cigarets, chewing tobacco, shoelaces, candy, shoe polish, boxing gloves, chess sets, checkerboards, books, toothpicks, toothpaste, chewing gum, food...
...Boston's big Filene's department store. At present each important division of the nation's $20,000,000,000 retail business has its own trade group like the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime ARF mover, said last week: "Everybody went down to Washington and began writing codes for retailers...
Than Renoir, no man more profoundly influenced the group of painters who founded modern painting in the U. S. William J. Glackens has assiduously imitated Renoir most of his life. George Wesley Bellows and Robert Henri adopted Renoir's method of painting coal-black, "shoe-button eyes." Childe Hassam still experiments with Renoir's dappled color...
...Manhattan, an unidentified 18-month-old boy in a pink zipper suit turned up in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store, talking his own private language, grabbing merchandise indiscriminately. Because the customers were amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling...