Word: bootblack
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...spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended to the smallest merchant, the one-plow farmer, the corner bootblack...
...Manhattan, when his wife had him judged incompetent because of senile dementia, it was revealed that Pietro A. Ierardi, bootblack concessionaire in Grand Central Terminal, had amassed $176,500 in 50 years...
...Mills boys when they were ragamuffins drumming up trade for their father's barbershop. They had no money to buy instruments so they learned to ape them. The family moved to Bellefontaine, 30 miles away. John, the oldest, got a job in a greenhouse. Harry, the fattest, became a bootblack. Herbert, the slickest, turned hod-carrier. Young Don, 17 now, was lazy...
...Life and Confessions; The Man Shakespeare; My Life and Loves); of asthma; in Nice. Fearless, blatant, egocentric, he had many bitter enemies, a few stanch admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen. He went to Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and which he made one of the great critical journals...
...Congressional District (1919-21 and since 1923), author of the bill which sent Gold Star Mothers to France, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sales manager of Funk & Wagnalls Co., onetime president of the Booksellers' League of New York; of a heart attack while seated in a bootblack chair; in Manhattan...