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  • Rox once told me that the brand name Hush Puppies came when the shoe company’s president was eating a southern dinner of fried corn “hush puppies” and asked the waitress why they were so called.

    Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010

  • Cornbread, Fried Green Tomatoes, BBQs, Potato and Cheese Biscuits, Black Eye Peas, Hush Puppies, Fried Chicken -- all typical flavors of the South paired with Beaujolais wines -- that was the successful twist of the brunch.

    Thei Zervaki: My First Time at SOBE Wine and Food Festival Thei Zervaki 2011

  • The problem with the Hush Puppies story is that the computational analysis of actual networks, such as a study that Mr. Watts conducted of 74 million Twitter message chains, shows that influencers, if they exist, are more common and less special than Mr. Gladwell thinks.

    Knowing What Isn't So Christopher F. Chabris 2011

  • But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.

    Hugh Muir's Diary 2011

  • Cornbread, Fried Green Tomatoes, BBQs, Potato and Cheese Biscuits, Black Eye Peas, Hush Puppies, Fried Chicken -- all typical flavors of the South paired with Beaujolais wines -- that was the successful twist of the brunch.

    Thei Zervaki: My First Time at SOBE Wine and Food Festival Thei Zervaki 2011

  • So, in effect, you can try on a pair of Hush Puppies and never leave home.

    The Orange Revolution Adrian Gostick 2010

  • So, in effect, you can try on a pair of Hush Puppies and never leave home.

    The Orange Revolution Adrian Gostick 2010

  • Cooper nodded a greeting to those in the room, knuckled his Harry Potter glasses up on his nose and walked across the lab to the examination table on silent, brown Hush Puppies shoes.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • Cooper nodded a greeting to those in the room, knuckled his Harry Potter glasses up on his nose and walked across the lab to the examination table on silent, brown Hush Puppies shoes.

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • This 50 year old company does a great job staying fashion forward and fresh with their choice of brand buying with brands such as Diesel, BCBG Girls, Lacoste, Ugg, Franco Sarto, and Hush Puppies.

    The Shopping Diet Phillip Bloch 2010

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