Word: underfoot
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...Away, slight men! You may have been leaders once. You are corporals of disaster now and a safe place for you may be yapping at the flanks but it is not safe to stand obstructing the front of this great army. You might be trampled underfoot - not knowingly but inadvertently - be cause of your small stature and of the up lifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is in tent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roose velt...
...Away, slight men! You may have been leaders once. You are corporals of disaster now and a safe place for you may be yapping at the flanks but it is not safe to stand obstructing the front of this great army. You might be trampled underfoot -not knowingly but inadvertently-because of your small stature and of the uplifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is intent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roosevelt...
...student carriage trade will not consider $2 unreasonable, inasmuch as the public garages of the City charge $12 and up; the private sheds back of Dunster House fetch not less than $6; and the open air lots get from $5 to $3 depending on the amount of broken glass underfoot...
...drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandière Marion Davies. In the background a staff officer is apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman with the remark, "It is the work of genius...
...corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...