Word: cobbler
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...midst of the trial the wife of one of the engineers arose, addressed the crowd: "There should be only one lone criminal on trial here today. That is the wretched man whose desire for death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor...
Born in Montreal, son of a French Canadian cobbler, Quebec's new Archbishop was ordained in Ottawa. He became superior of St. Joseph Scholasticate, where he taught philosophy, canonical law, moral theology. Vastly erudite, he taught also at the University of Ottawa, became dean of its theological faculty in 1929. Ottawa knew him as its "Good Father," a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founder of several houses of retreat, a tall, spare cleric who lends ascetic dignity to the affairs of his church...
...looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner's famed soliloquy on the comedy of human ways. Symphonic...
...satisfactory. It succeeds principally because of its music, on which Romberg and Hammerstein did not have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements out of his grandfather's songs...
...CRAVEN that Cowle 30, Phipps 1862. ate Start your in Lawrence life: C. estimate A of Phipps. the WM. $1-per-day E. political EMERY laborer on activity FAST PASMORE the of 12-to-8 Career: Son of an JAMES C. Episcopalian STRATTON minister, grandson of an immigrant English cobbler, he was graduated from Pittsburgh High School at 16, rejected further schooling. Relatives, interested in Carnegie Co., got him his start there. Diligent, shrewd, he caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office. He prospered along with the company, became...