Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted. By the time we got to London the children's shoes were worn through and, shoe rationing having gone off for the first time in seven years, we reshod them there...
...high plans for this cream of the educational crop. But at the same time "the weight of the school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...
...curbs, complained that refrigerators were backing up on them; radio stores were only saved by the boom in television sets. A West Coast furrier, on a scouting trip to New York, discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready to deliver at a day's notice...
...pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...
There's a shoe missing at Barnard Hall, and the latest pediatric rumor has it that Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily knows where...