Word: cobblers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful...
...Reading, Pa., Jacob Rheinheimer, 77, cobbler, died after an operation in which the surgeon found Jacob Rheinheimer's stomach studded with 200 cobbler's brads...
...William ("Billy") Mishkin, who expects to inherit a fortune in a few years; and a Manhattan sport named John Walker, were easily persuaded to be revealed as Metropolitan spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first instalment of the Sobol newsreel were: a survey of the careers open to Follies girls, with three examples; a shot of the interior of a speakeasy, deleted by censors after one showing...
...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...