Word: blacksmiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
...Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained a D. C. L. degree, then returned to the church as a Presbyterian student pastor. Before he even got around to studying theology, Preston Bradley withdrew from the Presbyterian Church, began preaching independently, set up Peoples Church as an "all-sectarian" group in a Chicago theatre. By 1926, when he built a $750,000 church on the North Side, Dr. Bradley had found Unitarianism to his taste, affiliated his congregation with the American Unitarian Association. Peoples Churchgoers contribute...
...King Edward's Coronation next May Sir Bindon Blood in his new role will be within not many arm's lengths of the famed Crown Jewels which his ancestor Colonel Thomas Blood, son of a well-to-do Irish blacksmith, succeeded in stealing from the Tower of London in 1671. With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused...
...under the Skopapoulos pillow. "What's he keeping that for?" someone asks. "I don't know," says his small manager (Joe Laurie Jr.) wearily, "maybe he's saving up for a horse." The horseshoe later turns out to be an amatory memento from a huge lady blacksmith named Sadie (Hope Emerson...