Word: socks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
...five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...
Tommy was playing on the lawn. "That's my Ronnie," cried Anna Thompson. She was positive, and prepared to prove it. "My Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...
...eight days). Missionary Salau (rhymes with allow) is a feature writer's dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...