Word: cobbler
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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...
...driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...
...down the Shenandoah Valley. His guides wanted to show the President the oldest and best but he was more interested in seeing the newest and least dressy. At Big Meadows he stopped to lunch with the woodsters. Menu: fried steak, string beans, mashed potatoes, iced tea. tomato salad, apple cobbler. Declared the President: "All you have to do is to look at you boys to see that the camps are a success. I wish I could take a couple of months off and live here myself. The only difficulty would be that you men have put on an average...
...Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince of shoedom that he is. He lives with his mother and drinks quantities of milk. Aged 19, he has escaped most formal schooling and examinations but passed the Czechoslovakian Government's test for the certificate of "master cobbler." After a trip to the Bat'a shoe outposts in Africa and apprenticeship in Bat'a facto ries in Switzerland and Germany Tommy is working through the plant at Zlin, department by department. Now & then he makes a night of it with Bat'a workers at their club...