Only 12 years before, he had been a drudge in a shoe-polish factory, living on his own, his family in debtors' jail; he felt abandoned, humiliated, hungry, heart-broken, close to annihilation. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Steven Alan , founder of the boutique clothing brand, said Bedrock would use the ground floor space for the launch or rather re-launch of a once-famous American brand: Shinola, originally a shoe-polish company that is best known today for a salty aphorism about human ignorance. ❋ Josh Barbanel (2011)
Dickens's father was jailed for debt when the boy was 12, and he was put to work in a shoe-polish "blacking" factory. ❋ Norman Lebrecht (2011)
The closer, Brian Wilson, dyes his beard this shoe-polish black, it's big and scruffy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But others have been sickened by the sight of the cancer-stricken, 83-year-old ruler, his hair still dyed shoe-polish black, being wheeled on a gurney into the makeshift courtroom in a police academy that once bore his name. ❋ Judith Miller (2011)
SSL had been in talks to buy the Kiwi shoe-polish brand from ❋ Unknown (2010)
With the exception of Mirren and Sergio Peris-Mencheta -- who plays an up-and-coming Argentine boxer whom Charlie sees as his next meal ticket, and with whom Grace begins a unlikely May-September romance -- the performances feel as phony as Pesci's hair, a shoe-polish black pompadour that looks like a small animal that curled up and died on his head. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is the two girls 'answer to the painful question at the heart of the story: how do you keep the spark of enchantment in a disenchanted world, and preserve the "magic" amid cabbage soup, toxic mascara that "we sometimes also use as shoe-polish" and banners proclaiming "Thanks to the party for the people's welfare" above a queue for toilet paper? ❋ Kapka Kassabova (2010)
Nathalie, a middle-aged student with a shoe-polish black bob, accosts Elena. ❋ Julia Mary Lichtblau (2010)
Jeremy Steele, A black-face man from Palo Alto, California, was equally offended: "what Harry Connick Junior doesn't understand is that black-face isn't just a show we put on for his benefit, it's an entire culture, with very deep roots, and even deeper jars of shoe-polish," Mr. James said. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If Mr. Hitler had simply bothered to take a minute to properly tease, shoe-polish, and hot-wax his partner, I'm sure that their relationship would have got off to a much more mutually rewarding start. ❋ Unknown (2007)
While many of them lived at a distance from the horrid realities of the young Industrial Age, Dickens's own childhood experience laboring in a shoe-polish warehouse infused many of his novels, including this one. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jimmy Dean breakfast skillets, bowls and sandwiches have revamped the staid sausage brand, and women's foot-care products have pumped new life into the century-old Kiwi shoe-polish brand. ❋ Unknown (2008)
John ‘Bud’ Cardos is also pretty good as a sleazy biker called “Firewater” who sports a faux mini Mohawk and is covered in what looks like shoe-polish in a rather tasteless attempt to portray a native American. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Even his trademark shoe-polish mustache is applied unevenly. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Kiwi was launched in 1906 by William Ramsay, a Scottish-born businessman who had a shoe-polish and disinfectant company in Australia. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His shoe-polish hair should come in handy for something. ❋ Unknown (2006)
OK, well then imagine someone made a wig by gluing some pubes to vaguely wig-shaped pad of steel wool, then greased it up with vaseline and black shoe-polish, and threw in the wop-curl for good measure. ❋ Justnick (2006)
This comes after the United Kingdom instituted a large-scale recall of food products - from frozen meals to salad dressing - said to be contaminated with the substance Sudan I. Sudan I is a dye used to colour substances like petrol, oil, and shoe-polish. ❋ Unknown (2005)
