1.   Missing were expensive black leather boots, the white shoe polish, a jumbo jar of Nivea.

2.   In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a permanent brown - like the best shoe polish, guaranteed not to rub nor run.

3.   As the story is told, she spent a considerable time trying to unscrew the puck, as if it were a tin of shoe polish.

4.   A church that started out selling toothpaste and shoe polish now has extensive, and growing, real-estate holdings in cities across the country.

5.   A man stops me on the street corner, shoe polish and brush in hand.

6.   A skinny kid, with black shoe polish on honey brown hair, a pair of blue leotards strung together for a costume.

7.   Dean sells everything from shoe polish to baitbox grubs in a small store around the corner from a huge complex owned by computer chip-maker Intel.

8.   Enrique Garza and Gustavo Alaniz are armed with a bottle of liquid shoe polish, trying to think of the proper send-off for their friend Linda Gomez.

9.   If the white tapes on your blinds are slightly soiled or discolored, you can touch them up with white liquid shoe polish.

10.   In Chicago, he once used shoe polish on a set of pads to make them look older.