Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow, it was as if the glass slipper in the Prince's hand was too small for Cinderella...
...Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
Almost to the end, his fertile, facile brain kept tabs on all his outposts of empire. He still spread his papers on the floor before his bedroom chair, turning the pages with one slipper and bending down to scrawl his piercing critiques, giving his editors lessons in Hearstian journalism. Deskmen at the Los Angeles Examiner, nerve center of the chain, received small or great commands as late as 3 a.m. More frequently in later years they were relayed over the phone by Miss Davies, and whether they called for an editorial blast against Secretary of State Acheson...
...pray for victory; they simply asked God to help them play like good sports-and to the best of their ability. Dayton, dubbed the "Cinderella" team of the tournament after upsetting top-seeded St. John's of Brooklyn and fourth-seeded Arizona, just hoped the slipper would continue to fit. For a while it almost...
Spiked Shoes. In Bellefontaine, Ohio, Mrs. Helen McCullough, charged with jabbing the heel of her slipper into her husband's face, was booked for "assault & battery with a deadly weapon...