Word: bootblack
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...Mexican Indian, a onetime cowboy and an Alabama Negro who used to be a bootblack composed the bulk of the music which Conductor Leopold Stokowski brought from Philadelphia to Manhattan one night last week. The fair-haired Stokowski was proving that his orchestra gives an occasional hearing to untried native composers...
...Moscow's favorite stories is about a bootblack from the Soviet Republic of Georgia who used to hang around the Kremlin gate refusing to shine shoes. "I only need to wait until my old Georgian neighbor Stalin comes along," the bootblack haughtily explained to Bolsheviks who sought a shine. "He will make me a Commissar or Ambassador at least...
...dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company...
...would farm out Texas and live in Hell." Said the Bishop: "Well, General Sherman seems to have had his choice, so I think I will go down and see what I can do with the farm." Bishop Kinsolving once appeared in Baltimore wearing a broad-brimmed hat. A bootblack asked him if he were Buffalo Bill, who was expected in town. "No." said the Bishop, "I'm Texas George." Before his death in 1928, "Texas George" ordained his son, Rev. Walter Ovid Kinsolving (now of Summit, N. J.), and his nephew "Little...
Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance...