Word: cobbler
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...stories were still fresh when he was growing up. His grandfather had come when the Indians had fled and the towns were rising, a Canadian immigrant in the land ocean. He rode the rails as far as he could, climbed off and asked about the opportunities for a cobbler. Somebody said there was a new town off about 20 miles, called Greenfield, Iowa. No train there. No stage. He walked, liked the place, sent for his family of six back in Ontario. My father's father, being the eldest son, shepherded them all safely to their new home...
...tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing to betray you." She is proved wrong, for O'Faolain shows him capable of a drastic...
...where the man-nequins' limbs are out of kilter under synthetic negligees in translucent shades of green and blue, fascinates me, while Corcoran's spacious, well-tended window doesn't interest me. Some charming stores have sprouted between the frowzy ones, too. I like Paul's Shoes because the cobbler printed his sign in slithery black letters. And I'm sorry the miniscule take-out stand for Greek food on River St. closed down, because it was shaped like two graduated sizes of building blocks stacked one on the other and painted in chalky blue and white stripes after...
...relates the story of a young man in rabbi school who makes a mistake so bad that his teacher says: "You want to be a rabbi? A shoemaker you should be." The point of the story is that even though the man takes this advice literally, and becomes a cobbler, all works out in the end, because as Eunuch says, errors, like everything else, "come from divine sources...
...Kallingers' neighbors are divided in their opinion of the family. Some neighbors find the Kallinger boys roughnecks who are too often truant from school, and their father a sour-tempered man given to the brandishing of a gun during neighborhood disputes. Others describe Kallinger as an expert cobbler who is unfailingly polite and neighborly to his customers...