Word: blacksmithing
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...equalizer. O'Brien counts on his imposing reputation to demoralize his teammates, but Army Lieut. Nieder. who dislikes the hulking sight of his rival, says disdainfully: "O'Brien can't 'psych' me out." Top foreign challenger is Britain's Arthur Rowe, a blacksmith who shows off to fans by licking a red-hot bar, practices behind a neighborhood pub, and despite a commendable toss of 62 ft. 1 in., is expected to be completely psyched by the Americans in Rome...
...TIME Correspondent William Weber Johnson tells it in a biography called Kelly Blue, published last week (Doubleday; $3.95.), Kelly was a rambler, a restless fiddlefoot who never stopped traveling until he was too old to roam. The son of a blacksmith of Irish descent, he was born in Ohio, lived in Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania before he was 16, and wandered West from New Jersey. As he himself admitted, he was always "too quick to take a notion and too quick to get charmed up" about somewhere else...
...pomp and misery, Spain clearly is still a place of glory, stored in such hidden sites as Poblet and such hidden artists as the blacksmith Ramon Mart...
...they devoted almost all their labors to the printing of books in Latin, Castilian and Catalan. Their printing equipment was up to the minute, but the only stove stood glowing in the doorkeeper's lodge. To that lodge came now and again a flint-faced, intensely devout blacksmith from the neighboring hamlet of Espluga de Francoli...
...Murphy was in every sense a U.S.-style professional's professional. Born and bred in Milwaukee, the son of an Irish-American railroad steam fitter, Murphy worked as a railroad fireman, blacksmith, day laborer, construction straw boss, stenographer in a lithographing company, worked his way through Marquette Academy and George Washington University...