Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other agents wondered whether their profession was to have a Whitney Case...
...Evans, who hails from Chicago, Odell & friends first acquired enough stock interest in Pacific States to have access to its list of investment certificate holders. Next they set up a company called State Guaranty Corp., peddled its preferred stock to Pacific States' certificate holders. Odell acted as fiscal agent, taking a 20% commission on these sales, thus getting enough money to purchase control of State Guaranty's common stock. And with the money it raised State Guaranty bought up all the capital stock of Pacific States...
...briefly on the Boston scene Tuesday to autograph copies of his latest book, "Wickford Point," which features a Harvard Housemaster turned novelist. Seated behind an imposing pile of his latest works, Marquand was guarded from a rush of autograph-seekers which failed to materialize, by an efficient lady literary agent and a high-brow sob sister from the Transcript (pronounced Trahnscript) for which he worked in its palmier days...
Thus spoke Bruce Lockhart, noted British author, journalist, Foreign Office observer, and "agent," as he was interviewed yesterday at the University Club. The author of "British Agent" has been in the United States ten weeks on a lecture tour and will leave shortly for England to take over a diplomatic post--if war breaks out in Europe...
...dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt cut about 90,000 words from Wickford Point, before submitting it to the Post...