Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin screamed. Was her conviction shattered then, perhaps -her belief in Mr. Baldwin as an agent of the Higher Power? She paled. Then Mr. Baldwin took his pipe out of his mouth, nodded to his chauffeur. The starter buzzed, the engine roared. At a blast from the limousine's powerful siren horn the crowd wavered. "Come on! Down them!!" shouted some voices; but the limousine broke through as one young miner shouted "Back to your hogs, Baldwin!* You're lucky to get away...
...Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany...
...close friend of Joseph Conrad for more than 10 years, and collaborated with him in several novels, such as "The Secret Agent", and "Romance." Since the death of Conrad, Mr. Ford has been called the finest stylist writing in English...
...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...copied manuscripts. Jack sends his wares to men who keep book stores. Jack and these men then put their wits and purses together to help Dick discover the book he wants, or ought to want. Dick is the man who reads the book that the storekeeper bought from the agent who came with news of the writer that sold his work to be printed and bound and distributed by the house that Jack Publisher built...