Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house, and even the "thanksgiving" would not seem to smack too much of "imitation"--except, perhaps, the imitation of the great past of Harvard College. It may, perhaps, be argued that the revival of these former practices has no more to recommend them than the resurrection of kneebreeches and shoe-buckles would have, but that argument is in a sense beside the point...
Massive and magnificent of mien is Gates McGarrah, 67, of striking resemblance to the late J. P. Morgan Sr. He is a director of such large corporations as American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., a member of practically every tycoon's club in Manhattan...
...awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...
...Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait, Mrs. Brooks-Aten had entered upon...
...paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...