Word: slippers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal dukes & duchesses and 200 stout Yorkshiremen from the village of Harewood, who had come up to town in Sunday best to salute their young landlord. As the bridal automobile swept away from the St. James's Palace reception that followed, a single tiny Cinderella-like silver slipper could be seen bobbing in the dust behind...
...Detroit, the boys have adopted a high-laced boot cut on heavy ski-boot lines, which makes an impressive clatter in high-school corridors. For girls, the ballerina slipper is fashionable for anything from study hall to football games. In either sex, of course, only a "squeegie" would wear...
...freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters...
Chinese Jackpot. In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes. The trouble with playshoes, he thought, was that their flat soles made women look dumpy. He copied the elevated, platform-type slipper which the Chinese had worn for centuries, and brought out "wedgies." This time he hit the jackpot...
...Khan. "Too much caviar, Rita," he murmured, "too much caviar." International News Service's starry-eyed Louella Parsons heaved a final sigh. The groom, she reported, "wearying but still buoyant, dropped on one knee and, with old-world gallantry, kissed her [Rita's] slipper...