Word: bootblack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senegalese seaport, he first met Madame Germaine, relict of a French engineer; later went to her house after he had been shot in the shoulder in a cafe brawl. Madame Germaine, philanthropic, took him to France with her; lost him as soon as the boat landed. He worked as bootblack, ice-boy, thief, until he met Tommy Walsh, onetime fisticuffer, who maintained a third-rate boxing school and an oversexed wife, Martha. George entered the school, dazzled oldtimers with his monkey-like agility and his sure-fire punch. With success came Martha Walsh. George felt sorry when Tommy found...
...native village became more and more foreign .to him: finally he left it altogether, came to the U. S. With no sense of the value of money, he wa usually broke, in England was once jaile< for theft. He worked in an automobil factory, in vaudeville, as a bootblack. During the War he served in the British army in Palestine, Egypt...
...Radical, Señor Irigoyen has put through such advanced legislation as the bill providing full-pay pensions for all middle-aged workmen. As an Autocrat, he holds every week a semifeudal and entirely unofficial court before which any Buenos Aires bootblack or beef baron who dares to do so may appear and tell his troubles. As an "original," Hipólito Irigoyen is rapidly turning white the hair of Argentina's more orthodox statesmen...