Word: cobbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With their finds carefully wrapped up or tucked away in cardboard cigarette boxes, the Bedouins go to Bethlehem. About 100 yards from the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is supposed to have been born, they disappear into a cobbler's shop. There in his single tiny room, surrounded by wooden lasts and shoemaker's tools (including a Singer sewing machine), sits Khalil Iskander Shahin, a seam-faced...
Into the Valley. He moved into the priest's quarters-a tiny room and kitchen rented from the Communists-and went around to the cobbler to get his dilapidated shoes repaired. "He has holes in his shoes like us,'' some people said approvingly. At night, on his battered portable, he wrote letters for the illiterate, appeals to provincial authorities, pension applications for old soldiers. More and more people began to bring Don Domenico their problems. Some of them even began showing up for Mass...
...putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar Redmond O'Hanlon, a Manhattan cop, will have a book of Shakespeare puns on the stand this spring. Alice Morgan, 78, who won $32,000, has completed The Investor's Road Map for Simon & Schuster. And Operatic Cobbler Gino Prato recently signed a second $10,000-a-year contract with a rubber company as good-will ambassador to U.S. shoemakers...
...earthy master of "the gentle craft" who eventually becomes Lord Mayor of London. It is one of those rich character parts that Kilty has made his specialty. The role further contains what is perhaps the largest repertory of oaths and insults ever assembled (mostly hurled at the cobbler's poor wife); Kilty manages to make them sound like the foulest words in the language (in fact some of them...
...mutterings last week when Cobbler Michael Delia Rocca, with the help of another cobbler, former Contestant Gino Prato, won CBS's $64,000 Question. Critics charged that: 1) Delia Rocca was actually a professional impresario, and 2) Gino Prato's appearance was simply a buildup for a new Revlon show to be called The $64,000 Challenge, starring past quiz winners...