Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customs inspector testified that he found four quart bottles in a chest marked with Miss Glancy's name. The defense counsel then pointed out that there was no proof that the bottles were Miss Clancy's, that there was no proof that they contained liquor. The customs agent was asked to taste the stuff. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to tell you anything. I am not an expert on the subject...
With a brand new paper suitcase, in look-me-over suitings and silk cravat, small boys see themselves in dreams returning, rich, famous, to astound the goateed station agent, the paunchy hotel proprietor, the sheriffs, rumdums and soda clerks of their old home town. Last week, Lawrence Tibbett, 28-year-old U. .S. baritone who came to fume one evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made...
...attorney of the prisoners were acute, he might conceivably try to get a jury of editors and maintain to them that his clients were hired to conspire as a press agent stunt. Editors would believe him every time. But they would vote to convict...
...Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" So said Jesus Christ to his mother, Mary. Bruce Barton, famed advertising agent, President of the advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, puts business in italics. This is the contribution to theology made in a recent book* of his, in which Agent Barton genuflects before a Saviour who was, in his opinion, the Founder of Modern Business. Agent Barton has small regard for the painters who have shown Christ as "a frail man, undermuscled, with a soft face-a woman's face, covered by a beard...
...made his deeds advertise him. His message, uttered through Agent Barton's lips, is: "This is my Father's business and He needs your help...