Word: cobblers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board and donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
...Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...
...Laporte City, Iowa, one Albert Cole, cobbler-music teacher, dyed a pair of his own oxfords with an analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts...
...hasten to correct what might be taken as the wrong impression of our attitude toward farming. I do not believe that farming is "obsolescent foolishness," neither do I think, nor have ever said that the farmer "ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...