Word: tinsmith
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...stitched together in a forbidding castle by a lonely inventor who dies, leaving his scarred, preternaturally gentle creature to be discovered by the folks in the middle-class folks neighborhood just below the castle. (In the movie, that street of dizzyingly matched pastel homes was a real place: Tinsmith's Circle in Lutz...
Nazif Beganovic, 59, a Muslim tinsmith from the ethnically mixed Banja Luka neighborhood of Budzjak, had lived for years in friendship with the Serb next door: "Before the war we'd drink brandy and slivovitz every night. After fighting started, he saw that we were lost, and he thought of himself as a | force with power over us. I said the war was not my fault. I had no sons fighting against the Serbs. But he screamed 'Be silent, Balija ((a pejorative term for Muslims))! I won't waste bullets shooting you. I'll burn you and blow up your...
...their leader's heartless command, shoot down a deserter. Just another businesslike day in the life of Commissar Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordukova). But even in a revolution that boasts of sexual equality, women will get pregnant. Vavilova must bear her child in the hovel of a Jewish tinsmith (Rolan Bykov) and his family. Their enforced intimacy sparks a cultural exchange: the commissar becomes feminized, and the tinsmith's wife (Raisa Nedashkovskaya) becomes a bit of a feminist. Outside, though, the Jew's children are taunted and tortured in a kind of dress rehearsal for Babi Yar. And after Vavilova gives...
Repenting of her deed, Immergluck has sought advice of the giants, Offen and Besitz, and they tell her that she must procure the magic zither which confers upon its owner the power to go to sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.... Immerglich calls to her side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...
Thayer took the mask used in fencing for his model and then went to a Cambridge tinsmith, who constructed the first mask in the history of the game. The mask was given a test run in the gym with satisfactory results and a new epoch began when Tyng first wore it in a game played at Lynn against a team billed as the "Live Oaks...