Word: cobbler
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...didn't know what was going on. Someone yelled, 'It's gas!'" Looking back, Vukovich, whose eyes and head were beginning to hurt, glimpsed the puddle. Next to it sat an immobile old man. His name, it turned out, was Shunkichi Watanabe; he was a retired cobbler. He was already dying...
...director -- a roly-poly guy who resembled the cop (far right) in Who Killed Who? -- could make movies that were cute and fun. Avery created sweet, but crazy, Disney-style elves in the charmfest The Peachy Cobbler. The perennially rejected skunk star of the delightful Little 'Tinker is wondrously resilient, pouting for a millisecond before leaping for joy in anticipation of his next true love. An Avery hero had to have a heart, if only so it could be broken. Also spindled, mutilated, detonated -- or bursting bomblike out of his chest, for all the world...
Buffet lunch, including fried chicken, beans and apple cobbler, the Front Porch restaurant, Yellville (home of Whitewater land records...
Salvatore Ferragamo, a stocky, wavy-haired Italian shoemaker who first apprenticed himself to a cobbler when he was nine years old, was a magician who worked with feet. He well understood the talismanic power of shoes, their ability to enchant and arouse, to dazzle and intrigue. He created shoes that were walking fantasies. But at the same time he was a craftsman who understood how a pair of ill-fitting shoes can ruin a day and how a pair of clunky shoes can make a duchess feel dowdy...
...impoverished farmer. In his autobiography he recounts that when he was nine, his parents were distraught because they could not afford a pair of traditional white Communion slippers for his six-year-old sister. The afternoon before the event, Ferragamo borrowed tools from a friendly local cobbler and stayed up all night making a pair of perfect white canvas shoes for his sister...