shoe-shine

I must ask you – with what do you expect that the homeless man on the street pay for the shoe-shine kit?

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Brazilians credit Lula, who rose from shoe-shine boy to factory worker to leader of a country of almost 200 million, with transforming Brazil into a modern nation with a world-class economy and increasingly potent middle class.

Rousseff is Brazil's first female president Juan Forero 2010

It tells the simple tale of a shoe-shine man (played by Andre Wilms) who compassionately takes in an African immigrant boy, to hide him from the authorities, while his wife (the amazing Kati Outinen) is dying in a hospital.

Karin Badt: Kaurismaki's Le Havre May Win Cannes Prize Karin Badt 2011

Later, there was a shoe-shine man known as Spit-Shine Charlie, who befriended the boy and showed him another kind of love.

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011

The men work for Mr. G Shoe Service, a shoe-shine company that rotates among different offices.

A Swig of Rum and a Shine 2010

This new film now features a shoe-shine man; it even starts with a close-up of his shoes.

Karin Badt: Kaurismaki's Le Havre May Win Cannes Prize Karin Badt 2011

Denying allegations that he had sought to profit from his time in office, Mr. Blagojevich offered a narrative of himself as someone who came up from humble beginnings and worked as a shoe-shine boy, pizza delivery man and dish washer.

Disgraced Governor Testifies in Trial Stephanie Banchero 2011

She would have one of her shoe-shine boys do anything that required typing.

'Sent from the candidate's BlackBerry.' Really? 2009

Le Havre was the first film in French by Finnish deadpan stylist Aki Kaurismäki, and its story of a shoe-shine man helping a fugitive stowaway African boy evade the police had something of the Dardennes about it, as well as a bit of Amélie.

Antisemitism, paedophilia, sex and talking beavers: Cannes film festival 2011 round-up§ 2011

Later, there was a shoe-shine man known as Spit-Shine Charlie, who befriended the boy and showed him another kind of love.

Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011