Word: slippered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, one Marie Lenay, soubrette, was dancing with an awkward man. He stepped on her foot. She glared. Again he stumbled over her. She hissed a warning to him. Once more the dolt set his boot upon her slipper. Mile. Lenay drew a knife from her stocking, thrust it into his vitals. Over his prostrate form, while the gendarmes closed around her, she said: "Learn about dancing before you come to me again...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...
...Story. A wicked priest is infatuated with the virtuous heroine, a reputable and happily married woman. He contrives to make his unholy advances through a pandar, but is on every occasion sternly repulsed. The lady's husband is jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress...
Peter's to Cardinal Mundelein who had just kissed the cross on his slipper and the ring on his finger. Likewise, to Cardinal Hayes. It was the final act of investiture...
...Cardinals began. The two prospective Cardinals were introduced into the Pope's presence by the Papal Master of Ceremonies, who held cardinal's hats above their heads as they performed the ceremony of "admiration"-kissing the Holy Father's cheek, ring and cross embroidered upon his slipper. Taking the hats from the Master of Ceremonies he placed them upon their heads, saying, "Receive...