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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birds & Bigotry | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Felton broke his foot there on Monday, practicing the shotput. A faulty toe-board shattered during his effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felton Injured, To Miss Meet | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...Manning became Bishop of New York, and the 125,000 registered members and 400 clergy of the crowded 4,763-square-mile diocese soon learned that they would have to toe a straight ecclesiastical line. Firmly championing the sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fast in the Faith | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Brown's Carl Leone put on a virtual one-man show, passing for all touchdowns and accounting for three conversions, one with his toe and two via the aerial route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown's Aerials Overhaul Jayvee Eleven by 27-6 | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...fellow named Wolf, and one named Livermore, and one named Wheelright came around and saw the ski boots. These follows saw the box toe and jumped on it to see if it would bend in. But you could run a truck over those toes and they wouldn't cave in, so they bought the boots." At the point the Limmer ski boot business started...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Boots, Beer Make Limmer Tradition | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

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