1.   As a child, he worked as a shoeshine boy to help his family make ends meet.

2.   Beginning life as a shoeshine boy, he maintained a low public profile while climbing a Horatio Alger ladder.

3.   A former shoeshine boy who grew up in a poor family, Toledo earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.

4.   Fisher writes that Kennedy figured the market must really be out of control if a shoeshine boy was telling him what to buy.

5.   From his first job, as a black shoeshine boy in a white barbershop in East Texas, Brown has thrived in adversity.

6.   Harrison Durrance is a Depression-era shoeshine boy with ambition and dreams.

7.   He often donned the garb of the rulers of the Inca Empire and featured shoeshine boys to remind votes of what he had left behind.

8.   His father, according to one family friend, went from shoeshine boy to owner of a regional chain of furniture stores.

9.   His family moved to the Pacific port of Chimbote, where he worked as a shoeshine boy and sold newspapers.

10.   In his youth, he was a shoeshine boy at Hull House, the social services institution founded by Jane Addams, to help support his family.