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...brothers have always been happier in a shop than at desks. For three generations the Fishers had been American carriage makers. The brothers started their immense fortune on the painstaking craftsmanship learned in their father's blacksmith shop in Norwalk, Ohio. First to leave was the late Fred J., followed by Charles...
Woman's Place. In Hollywood, Mrs. Minnie Short asked for a divorce, charged that her husband had made her work as a blacksmith for twelve years, threatened to cut her heart out if she disobeyed...
...monarch had 9,000 women in his harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
Death & Transfigurations. In his rage against the prewar politicians he had dreamed of plain American workmen ending machine politics and voting for some "heroic, shrewd, full-informed, healthy-bodied, middleaged, beard-faced American blacksmith," who would cross the Alleghenies and march into Washington. Now it seemed to him that America lay in the hospital, feeble, bloody and bandaged. He had thought to beat the alarm and urge relentless war; he found himself soothing the wounded or silently watching the dead. He could no longer endure the poppy-show goddesses and the pretty blue and gold interior of the Capitol because...
...build it. Jeremiah Wilkinson's 1776 "invention"-putting a dozen headless tacks in a vise and hammering them all with one blow-was the talk of Rhode Island, and it was not until 1850 that a machine was invented to make "horse nails" tough enough to supplant the blacksmith...