Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to some observers the Metropolitan Subway system in Paris is the most efficient subway service in the world. Entering, one buys a ticket, the price varying according to the class. The ticket is punched at the entrance to the platform, the agent regulating the number of people passing him to avoid overcrowding on the platform. Many of the stairways are divided; people entering go down to the right, those leaving go up to the right. The wide subway doors are all on the side, usually three of them, so that the cars can be emptied and filled rapidly. Doors...
Likely candidates for the vacant governorship seemed to be: Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert; Edward Henry Cun- ningham of Iowa, already a Federal Reserve Board member; William P. Gould Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank. Mr. Harding was Mr. Crissinger's predecessor...
...once trod those boards and that the Stupidities of 1927 now makes merry in the hallowed footsteps, the discerning must remember that such is not only a local condition. Other cities, Detroit for one, which are larger than Boston receive worse treatment from the nimble hands of the booking agent. And one worthy, if sporadic, stock company, a Repertory Company-- which is only a rose by any other name--and some in different permanent groups are always lurking in the background...
...bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
...friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...