Word: shod
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...such breathless prose, well-shod, bestselling Author Betty MacDonald, 42, rummages back through her life in an effort to shake the last giggle out of her job-seeking days during the Depression. After Betty walked out on her husband and deserted the chicken farm (The Egg and I), but before she came down with TB (The Plague and I), she went to live in Seattle at her widowed mother's house. There her bossy big sister Mary, a live-wire private secretary with a city full of contacts, thrust her into the hands of one employer after another, including...
...trainer, canny Max Hirsch, was not so happy: "My horse is very definitely suited to a fast track. I believe he can run in sticky going, but I am not sure." With an eye on the weather, Hirsch waited until the morning of the race to have his horse shod with mud caulks...
...Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...