Word: blacksmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearances fun was had. Laval is the son of a storekeeper, and Mussolini is the son of a blacksmith, but for that matter Elena is the daughter of a Montenegrin mountain chieftain who made himself King. One of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting has written of Her Majesty's father thus: "He preferred a thousand times his native dress with knives stuck into the broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down...
Outstanding among the artists who find just plain painting sufficient excitement is Eugene Speicher. His portrait of "Red" Moore, a brawny New England blacksmith seated in a Windsor chair by his anvil, preached no message at all, was a bargain , for any collector at any price...
...German blacksmith, Chicago's "Flying Dutchman" Jay Berwanger, who wears a white mask to protect a nose broken in his freshman year, found Illinois backs alert against passes, Illinois linemen on guard against power plays. Galbreath's touchdown in the first period won for Illinois...
...cobwebbing that even Pip, when asked what it is, says "dunno Mum. . ." Phillips Holmes achieves an accurate and gloriously irritating cockney accent of such poignancy that no one is more relieved than the audience when he finally learns to speak like a gentleman. He is union persuasive as the blacksmith's apprentice but is the epitome of gentility when be waltzes at Richmond House...
...George Unangst Wenner celebrated the 66th anniversary of his ordination as a Lutheran pastor. White-bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches on occasion, edits...