Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennington, dancer: "The outer room of a hairdressing parlor at No. 1417 F. St., Washington, is adorned by a photograph of me, balanced on one toe. I gave this picture to the hairdresser in gratitude for a permanent wave well executed. Mrs. Coolidge entered this parlor early on her first day in Washington and called for a plain, old-fashioned shampoo followed by a conservative arrangement of her dark hair. Mrs. Coolidge uses no face clay, powder or cosmetics...
...were chosen from the now sobered officers. Two limousines left Warsaw "for a secluded spot." Next morning in the gray of dawn the limousines returned. Marshal Pilsudski and General Szeptycki descended suffering acutely from-bad headaches! One of the seconds was wounded in the foot: he had stubbed his toe against a rock! Pilsudski's admirers, although apparently in ignorance of what took place on the "field of battle," stress the fact that the incident in no way reflects unfavorably upon their hero's "prowess on the battlefield." Attempts to make political capital out of the incident...
Prince George, youngest son of King George V: "I underwent an operation to have my two little toes removed. I had been afflicted with 'hammer-toe'-a shortening of the tendons which causes the little toe to curl up and is very painful in walking and dancing, of which I am very fond...
...matter of a sure eye and a sound heart and it will be a lucky bulldog who does not find that the only way to cross John's goal-line is on the toe of John's boot...
...Genoa conference have been set at rest by the news that the Russian Ballet is to take part. Certainly if the Russian nation has a leg to stand on, that leg belongs to the Ballet. If the Bolsheviks wish to bring up the value of the ruble, they must toe the mark while the rest of the conference is enjoying itself...