Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready were the traditional red stockings that every Roosevelt, child and grownup, hangs over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...
...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...
...convincing reason. But on the other hand this does not prove that a prairie fire of academic reaction is roaring down upon American colleges. Least of all down upon Harvard, where authorities made a silly mistake in the Browder case and otherwise have given every indication of wishing to toe the straight liberal line in affairs academic...
Then the union blundered onto a tender corporate toe. A nominally separate union of C.I.O. foremen demanded recognition by Chrysler. "A new attempt to control production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably from John Lewis) that no such demand by any C.I.O. union should again be made during the life of the new contract. "Just so long as the corporation continues to drag extraneous issues into the situation," replied Mr. Thomas with a straight face, "so long will the corporation have...
...order to give this new drive teeth, Leahy said that plainclothesmen and women detectives are going to be scattered throughout the city to be sure that the local "refreshment houses" toe the line. All taverns violating this regulation will first be warned. Then if further trouble occurs their licenses will be revoked. Several have already been warned...