Word: cobbler
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...immigrant Italian cobbler, Siragusa started making radio transformers 25 years ago in his father's Chicago shop. He developed an improved kind of transformer, and built his Transformer Corp. of America into the largest company of its kind in the world. Five years after refusing $5,000,000 for the business, he went bankrupt in the depression...
...neat and tidy admirer of the neat and tidy in the past, Stravinsky considers himself an artisan, like a cobbler making shoes. He applies his dictum on writing music-"To know how to discard, as the gambler says"-to conversation, sometimes brushes off questions with a brusque growl: "Ach, I am not interested...
...morning last week, a Moslem Arab and a Jewish cobbler fell into violent argument in Oudjda's main street. The Jew stabbed the Arab with a pair of scissors. The Arab fell to the ground yelling for vengeance. At once mobs of Arab men & women, armed with clubs and knives, flung themselves on Jews and Jewish shops. In half an hour five were killed (including a Frenchman), 30 wounded; 150 houses and shops were sacked or destroyed...
...Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
...when he was seven, Max Band took his only pair of shoes to the village cobbler for re-soling. While he waited, barefoot, the cobbler fashioned a crude brush to varnish the new soles. He did it by pounding the tip of a stick until the fibers were separated and soft. Afterwards, Band ran home as fast as his new soles would carry him, made his own brush, and set to work on his first oil painting-using salad...