Word: booting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With nine pleasant human actors to boot, sympathetic Burgess Meredith staging, and an uncluttered stage, Thurber can shoot straight at the audience. Out of his imagination has come a glorious and instructive world in which everyone is to some extent out of his mind. The demonstration begins at once, with four dancing couples stopping to fling out such remarks as: "She said he proposed something on their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor...
Shoes & a Boot. One night, Morrison recalls, the objective was a shoe store. "Since the 40th District [the cops' own] was guarding it, it was very easy for all the boys to help themselves . . . We all started loading tons of these shoes. We filled up 30 or 40 big cartons with shoes. We were filling the squad car up and the trunk with shoes, all different sizes, for all their relatives and themselves. They're all wearing these shoes-it says Crawford Shoes on them. Everybody got four or five pair in their home. The rest of them...