Word: shoes
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...VENERATE the Reagan legacy by checking in on Nancy's and Ronald's old footwear (and that of Mamie Eisenhower too) at the Shoe Museum...
...young boy on his mother's hand stepped brightly out of Jo-Lynn Shoe Shoppe--with a springy gait that said his whole world had changed simply because he had been reshod. They turned left and headed for Lampe Drugs, a family operation since 1940. Across the street at Faeth's, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Faeth family catered to customers in a cigar shop where you can sip a cold Pabst for a buck, buy a box of shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids...
...Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army!" He had a Howard Hughes-like obsession about germs, was so paranoid that he would have rivals purged, so ruthless that he was accused of masterminding a plot to assassinate a South Korean President and to down an airliner. He wore shoe lifts...
...mean is that I can't stand for my feet to be uncomfortable. Most of my body's capacity for low-grade chronic pain is located south of the ankles, and as a result, much of my life is spent in the quest for a decent pair of shoes. I live in hope. I pause at shoe-store windows and grow glassy-eyed. My sons find the effect mildly hilarious. The Mr. Toad of footwear...
...should probably move to Cairo, where, some years ago, I saw that the owners of shoe stores had arranged rows of chairs on sidewalks outside their shops so that customers could come in the evenings to sit and stare through the windows - as if the shoes were a performance, a son et lumiere. My search for the perfect shoe has made me an inadvertent expert - a horrified expert - on shoe developments. I have noticed, as you may have, that in recent years the designs of men's and women's shoes have grown both comic and hideous. What accounts...