Word: cobbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discussing the many jobs of various natures he held in his younger days, Mr. Frost said: "I was at Dartmouth for a while, and during the five years between that and the time I entered Harvard I did all kinds of work imaginable-factory hand, cobbler, mill worker, reporter and editor on the Lawrence, Mass., "Sentinel". A lot of these fellows who rave about the troubles of the "working class" probably never saw the inside of a mill in their lives...
Died. Benjamin Warner. 79, onetime Polish emigrant, cobbler and delicatessen dealer, father of the cinema's three Warner Brothers (Harry. Albert, Jack); in Youngstown, Ohio...
...Adolf Hitler's small talents as a young man. While his parents were still living in little Leonding not far from the Austro-German border, Adolf and his flaxen-haired mother decided he would be a painter or an architect. First obstacle was his besotted, burly father, retired cobbler and customs official. The father died when Adolf was 14. The mother was dying of a cancer. The neighbors thought lonely, daydreaming Adolf was losing his mind in sympathy for his mother's suffering because he spent all his time woodcarving, drawing, painting. Adolf was 18 when his mother died...
Married. The Archbishop of York's favorite kitchen maid, pretty Dorothy Shaw; to George Wilson, Bishopthorpe cobbler; by the Archbishop of York. She changed into traveling clothes in a bedroom of the Archbishop's Palace, left the Palace on her honeymoon in the Archbishop's motor...
...process by which Jimmy Savo, son of a Bronx cobbler, worked his way into the world's most impressive theatrical organization was long and disjointed. Twenty years ago he was a burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...