Galoshes

Your article "The Time May Be Right for Galoshes to Make a Splash Again" page one, March 3 evokes memories of bygone years when one could still buy them.

We Are Keeping Our Wingtips Dry 2011

Galoshes rose to stardom in the U.S. in 1936, when Fred Astaire told Ginger Rogers, "You ought to be wearing galoshes," just before they sang "A Fine Romance."

The Time May Be Right for Galoshes to Make a Splash Again Barry Newman 2011

He arrived for the red carpet dressed head-to-toe in designs from his new line and performed songs from his solo album, Happy in Galoshes, as well as a couple Stone Temple Pilots classics for a packed crowd at Wasted Space.

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Ai memmer a liddel gurrl waz reciting frum Bibel n forgod naem of buk, so she sed “Galoshes.”

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Awdrey-Gore, and so on, the collection begins with the single-panel perhaps unfinished "The Galoshes of Remorse" and includes a variety of classically Gorey titles: "Neglected Murderesses," "Tragedies Topiaires," and "The Unknown Vegetable," among others.

The WritingYA Weblog: Gorey Details a. fortis 2007

Awdrey-Gore, and so on, the collection begins with the single-panel perhaps unfinished "The Galoshes of Remorse" and includes a variety of classically Gorey titles: "Neglected Murderesses," "Tragedies Topiaires," and "The Unknown Vegetable," among others.

Archive 2007-01-01 a. fortis 2007

Galoshes called round, and made himself mighty civil, and got into a habit of dropping in about dark and smoking his pipe with the family.

Island Nights' Entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Papa was pretty full, and got a club, and lit out straight for the place, and there was Galoshes on his knees, and a lot of natives looking on.

Island Nights' Entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

He got the Galoshes, and he was soon below in a little duodecimo garden, where between two immense walls a plumtree and an apple-tree were standing.

Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840

It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.

Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840