shoeshining

You may be justifiably angry at being forced out of the noble profession of sock making and into the humiliation of shoeshining, or at being thrown out of work while that brute the shoeshiner who lives across the street makes a fortune.

Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The conclusion to the shoeshining often is oral service to the boots.

Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

The conclusion to the shoeshining often is oral service to the boots.

Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

The conclusion to the shoeshining often is oral service to the boots.

Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

When I quit shoeshining, Ella was so happy that she went around asking about a job for me-one she would approve.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

We sit on the shoeshining stand on Ninety-sixth Street, looking over the

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

"When you slow down, you get shoeshining; you wear out your tapes, you wear out your drives, you get backup failures, etc. So, it's good they are aware of the issue and are doing their best to address it."

SearchStorage: News and trends in the storage industry Andrew Burton 2010

Bosman, 61, and Dave Luce are the only barbers, and Drew Miller is the sole porter, a job combining shoeshining and custodial duties.

unknown title 2009

There came to be a kind of tacit agreement among numbers of the reading public that when one person laid down the baton, someone else must pick it up; and so when a customer entered a barbershop, the barber would lay aside the Boston Evening Globe and the customer would pick up Judge; or when a customer appeared in a shoeshining parlor, the bootblack would put away the Racing Form and the customer would open his briefcase and pull out The Sheik.

Irtnog 2007

There came to be a kind of tacit agreement among numbers of the reading public that when one person laid down the baton, someone else must pick it up; and so when a customer entered a barbershop, the barber would lay aside the Boston Evening Globe and the customer would pick up Judge; or when a customer appeared in a shoeshining parlor, the bootblack would put away the Racing Form and the customer would open his briefcase and pull out The Sheik.

April 2007 2007