Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devil's Island (Pauline Frederick). "A Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
...with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics is a sideline, a recreation. I make my living in business and have my fun in politics." He has always been essentially a business man. Once, instead of going around the world with his wife, he became Chicago agent for a fidelity insurance company. It was a good job. Now he employs 200 persons, and earns from $50,000 to $60,000 a year. Mr. Brennan likes to talk of his business career; it proves his independence, he says...
...least in part by the U. S.] Straightway the U. S. Treasury Department, through Assistant Secretary Garrard Winston, gave back the lie with delicate irony to Chancellor Churchill, pointed out that almost $2,000,000,000 of the "munitions and foodstuffs" alluded to were bought by Britain as purchasing agent for her Continental Allies with sums lent them by the U. S. (Thus Britain was declared to have purchased on her own account about half the "Common Cause" munitions and supplies stated by Mr. Churchill.) Pat came the British Exchequer's answer. The sums expended by Britain as agent...
...Coffin had Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. (1862-) and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923) as his technicians. (He could not keep Samuel Insull as sales agent.) Himself he devoted to inducing industry to use electricity for power...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...