Word: bootblack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French, but it is 17th Century French, adapted to new uses. . . . At Stockholm you hear the pedantic French of the old court. At Constantinople it is the French of the bootblack...
Grover Aloysius Whalen, Police Commissioner of New York city, is an elegant gentleman. Lately he eyed with annoyance the shabby bootblack, one Giuseppe Carnozzi, who shines the Whalen shoes twice daily at police headquarters. Whalen commands were issued. Carnozzi dimensions were taken. Last week a new bootblack shined the Whalen shoes?still named Giuseppe Carnozzi but now clad in blue livery with brass buttons, with the title BOOTBLACK embroidered on cap, on breast pocket...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
Said J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler: "I am a native of Tennessee. Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
...succeed in winning the game. I scored five out of eleven. In question number four, it would be interesting to know where the bootblack obtained the whiskey and other stimulants, in case we ever visit the Senate and have need of them. I would appreciate very much a copy of TIME, as I have never heard of it until tonight...