Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, do you think it was timely to take time to two-time the small-time weekly newspapers by inferring that our advertising is largely made up of patent medicine displays of the ''sore-toe" variety? In your interesting account of the new chain of weeklies on Long Island [TIME, July 9] you grieve many of us by saying they "print the sort of patent medicine advertising typical of smalltown weeklies...
...which he learned by wrapping his legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last week turned his back on his opponent, reached across his own shoulder to seize Brown ing's head, tossed him over...
Author Larsson's care to write objectively has made his story a little toe matter-of-fact, his people a little too typical. But, as is often the case in such chronicles, the minor characters are worth the price of admission...
...musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...
...such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called a voice from the darkness. "Mighty near bust my toe off's what's the matter. Told that boy a dozen times if I told him Once that he'd ought to nail that board, in place. . . ." The Author. Elder brother of Author Oliver La Farge (Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward), son of Architect Christopher Grant...