Word: coppersmith
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Paul Revere hooked a wooden codfish above his coppersmith shop. In early Boston, children crowded around on Saturdays in hopes that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle...
...tomorrow in memory of a man who rode round the town telling people to get out of the way of the shot heard round the world and who was a coppersmith on the side which a man who makes coppers who are men who prevent crimes and shots and that is why the Mafia and the CRIME will be inoperative tomorrow...
...veterans to go out as veterans' business councilors. It was making loans as low as $10 to members of 4-H Clubs. It had lent $1,500 to Joe Szabo, clothing operator, who in four years boomed it into a $1,500,000-a-year business. Vyrl Coppersmith, farm boy of Chino, had got $250, bought himself two steers...
Jean Antoine Watteau was born to a Flemish coppersmith in 1684 in the town of Valenciennes. At 14 Jean Antoine began sulking to make his derisive father apprentice him to the best local painter. When he was 17, his master died and Watteau legged it for Paris. Starving, homeless, he had to sell his hat for food. In the shadow of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he finally got a job painting the same picture of St. Nicolas over & over again for a wholesale picture shop. He rarely signed his work...
...pound class: Harold Frankel '34 defeated Coppersmith (Y) by decision. Time...