Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second successive day of scrimmage for the University football squad yesterday saw the Crimson regulars scoring three touchdowns against the seconds, and scoring two of the three attempts for the point after touchdown, and adding another three points to the total through a drop kick from the toe of Chauncey...
...season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus of toe-dancers flit about in movements more airy than usual. Theatre-goers can hardly afford to miss Comedian Lupino. The rest is mediocre...
...have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...
...story that relates how God sends Death into the world to get a reckoning from Everyman, and how Everyman beseeches all friendly shapes for aid who have attended him until that time, and how all forsake him. Fellowship bids him farewell; Kindred has a cramp in his toe-he cannot go with Everyman; and as for Good Deeds, his last love, she is so faint that she can hardly stand. Knowledge alone will help him over the way that he must go. Knowledge is as good as her word. She takes Everyman to Confession, and when he has scourged himself...
...singing when she spoke to him? The cobbler, leering, continued his chant, and standing at his counter Miss Davis suddenly recognized the aria. "Ah, Gioielli . . . gioielli della Mad-ho-ho-han-ah. . . ." Jewels of the Madonna! She remembered now. The rings, the brooches-she had left them in the toe of her shoe. Arrested, Louis D'Ascali denied his guilt...