Word: locksmithing
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Kasha liked Berlin. Among the neighbors in suburban Dahlem's quiet Herrfurthstrasse, the personable little Airedale puppy soon made herself as popular as her mistress, pretty OMGUS Stenographer Betty Six. In normal times even Locksmith Walter Tietz might have petted the dog as she sniffed at the door of his shop in the Ladenbergstrasse...
...boss, who told his boss. Soon the case reached the ears of Major General F. A. Keating, Commander of U.S. Forces in Berlin, who told his deputy, dog-loving Colonel Frank L. Howley, to, investigate. The military court's order was reversed, and young Judge Tappan censured. As Locksmith Tietz was dragged off to jail again, his bewildered wife, with a large bunch of roses clutched in one hand and her small son gripped by the other, called on Miss Six. Betty took the flowers uncertainly, stammered through an interpreter that, really, she had had nothing to do with...
...Franjo Broz, a Croat blacksmith, and his wife Maria. He was christened Josip at the Kmrovec Catholic church, and entered the parish school. According to some authorities, Tito was "a bad, violent schoolboy," who soon left his father's house, became a locksmith's apprentice...
...from memories of his own early struggles, from the feeling that Roosevelt's New Deal had blessed the lives of the masses. Davidson was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, of Russian Jewish immigrants. He was forced to leave school in his teens, toiled as a locksmith's apprentice, a messenger, a leatherworker. His battle for existence went on for many years after the day when he accidentally picked up a piece of modeling clay, felt his heart jump, knew that whatever stood in his way he would be a sculptor...
...High Command (some 114 top generals and admirals) for cooperating with the Nazis and plotting aggressive war beyond the normal duties of a patriotic officer. Said Assistant Prosecutor Colonel Telford Taylor, U.S.A.: "We respect the distinguished profession of arms. . . . We do not condemn a man for being a locksmith, but we do condemn him for taking advantage of his profession to break into his neighbor's house...