Word: cobbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried from 2 to 3 colts Revolvers" and knew how to use them. He was a wagoner, a cobbler, a woodsman, a cattle breeder, a farmer, a doctor of sorts who could perform a "surguicicle operation," an impassioned preacher, a shrewd businessman, a layer-on of hands, a seer of fascinating visions. He was one of the toughest men that ever walked, but the Indians (who ate out of his hand) named him Yawgawts, which means Cry-Baby (Lee himself preferred to render it "Man of Tender Passions"), and his foster-father once exhorted him, saying: "I want...
Marshal Stalin, the cobbler's son who was on the way to inheriting a quarter of the earth, proposed a toast to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "The bravest governmental figure in the world . . . fighting friend, and a brave man." Winston Churchill, the pink-cheeked giant of Western statesmen, who was about to be ousted from power, raised glass to Marshal Stalin, who, "in peace no less than in war, will continue to lead his people from success to success." Stalin drank to the health of the President of the U.S.. "the chief forger of the instruments...
Only three years ago, substantially the same Giant team as today's started the season like bushers. A converted outfielder named Whitey Lockman was learning to play first base. On third, another converted outfielder, Henry Thompson, was booting oftener than a cavalryman's cobbler. Such seasoned pitchers as Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen were giving away runs as if they were CARE packages...
Wellspring of the show was the genius of Andersen himself. Born to a poor and slightly unbalanced cobbler, Andersen liked to dabble in art; he was pretty good at cutting out silhouettes, once designed a whole new set of shapes for gingerbread cookies. But Andersen's real gift was painting word pictures that appealed to children everywhere. Nearly all of the youthful illustrators who submitted entries in the current show were already familiar with Andersen's tales in their own languages...
...organized "the policy of persecution" with which Mary retaliated. "we do not know," writes Author Prescott. But the burning of heretics, "a principle taken for granted" in Tudor England, now began on a scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires...