The cops now think the idea is cool - but then cops think spit-shined shoes are cool.

They're dressed in civilian rig, but their posture is military, just like their spit-shined shoes.

Sitting at that table, he never looked less than his best, in a crisp shirt, well-cut jacket and spit-shined shoes.

The sergeant wore black, spit-shined shoes, which glistened like patent leather, and a brown, beaver-felt campaign hat with a wide, flat brim.

The white boy pictured himself in spit-shined shoes and crisp green uniforms.

Andre looked every inch the proper mourner, in his tasteful charcoal-grey suit, subdued tie, spit-shined shoes.

The running man collapsed and slid to a stop inches from Howard's spit-shined, patent-leather-bright shoes.

He sports the mandatory suspenders and the spit-shined shoes, and he can make $5 bills materialize in his nephews' pajama pockets.

Their clipped hair and spit-shined shoes pegged them as military.

But Mr. Geil, a silver-haired, ruddy-faced man, seems to have slipped easily out of spit-shined shoes and into chalk-dusted pants.