Word: cobblers
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...Jane Acheson, daughter of New Dealing Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and two other resourceful careerists announced a new super-personal service bureau (called "As You Like It") which would entertain dull guests, mind babies, and put out the cat as ably as it carried clogs to the cobbler...
...citizens continued to mutter against snooping questions in the 1940 Census. New York's Legislature resolved to urge Congress to eliminate "personal questions," chiefly the two on incomes. Similar action by the U. S. Senate was postponed until Senators could read their mail. Meantime in Kenosha, Wis., Cobbler James Rosselli and Census Taker John W. Girman met headon. As a preview of what may happen in April when the Government begins knocking on 132,000,000 citizens' doors, the U. S. watched the bout with considerable interest...
Rosselli was arrested, held in $200 bail. But quicker than Rosselli could sole a shoe came a chiding wire to Wisconsin officials from Census Director William Lane Austin: "You have disregarded instructions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to Washington office for disposition." Charges against Cobbler Rosselli were dropped...
...more about heredity in fruit flies and sweet peas than about heredity in man. They cannot conscript men & women for experimental breeding in laboratories. Thus limited, they grab eagerly at what observable oddments they can-collect evidence on hereditary tongue-twisting, eye color, extra fingers, webbed fingers, hollow or "cobbler's" chest, white forelock...
Starting as a hill town cobbler's son, Aretino became the most powerful and popular writer in Europe, was perhaps the greatest and certainly the dirtiest master of low vernacular prior to Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Through blackmail, stark flattery, incredible effrontery, and a genius for spotlighting weakness wittily, he forced most of the greatest men of his time to pay his way and to acknowledge him as equal. His great friend Titian described him as "a condottiere (gangster boss) of literature." Biographer Chubb compares his fame to that of Byron, his influence to that of Voltaire...