Word: cobbler
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...Premier was invited to call on the President at the White House during his visit this month to U. S. cities. Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Lloyd George have this in common: each of them had a humble village cobbler as his earliest political adviser. Mr. Lloyd George's cobbler happened also to be his uncle and his acting father. Mr. Coolidge's cobbler is, as everyone knows, James Lucey of Northampton, Mass...
...enter--the army, the church, and the diplomatic service. Between these he was free to make his choice, unless his parents had already declded for him. If the boy was the son of a commoner, he almost always followed the trade of his father, and became a farmer, a cobbler, or apothecary as the case might be. He was never embarrassed by riches from which to choose his circumstances or his ancestors pointed...
...program will be as follows: Mendelssohn, Italian Symphony in A Major Rimsky - Korsakoff, Tone Picture "Sadko" Liszt, Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra in A major Erwin Nyfregyhazi, soloist. Rabaud, Dances from the opera "Marouf, Cobbler of Cairo...
...university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left. Christian Science Monitor...
...should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There he met a Catholic and was converted from the Protestant faith, and when set free a T was branded on his thumb...