Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt...
...Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...
...being held for the benefit of conscientious students and the Widow's (alias Manter Hall School). I I never used to pay much attention to these things when I lived here regularly, but yesterday I visited a few and found them quite amusing, especially when the head proctor's toe missed me as I was going out of the door...
...attest her birth. Though an infant, she has gained the reputation of being distinctly self-possessed. Therefore when her petite and tearful mother, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, bent over Princess Elizabeth to say goodbye, last week, the royal infant was concentrating upon an effort to suck her left great toe. . . . "God bless my baby," said Elizabeth of York softly...
Twinkletoes (Colleen Moore). In this film with an English setting, Colleen Moore, wearing a blonde wig, looks like Lillian Gish, enacts a limehouse lily as Dorothy Gish would (TIME, Nov. 8). A peppery toe-dancer, she leaps to the heart of Prizefighter Chuck Lightfoot, who is so severely jabbed that he counters by helping Twinkletoe's rascally parent (Tully Marshall) out of a counterfeit crime, and himself into the hands of the police. Then, a subtitle records the passage of a year and a happy ending. Colleen Moore entertains...