Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant self in the ample countryside. Janet and Antrim stagger home, black-lipped and full of British guilt. After...
...been growing of late that he is one of the Big Ten comedians. In Marjorie, Mr. Tombes is not endowed with any such happy material as his famous cinema burlesque in the "Follies," but there is much, none the less, to be thankful for. He plays the press agent of a famed actor and rewrites a "sap's" play because he loves the sister. The sap and the sister were played by Skeet Gallagher and Elizabeth Hines, respectively. Mr. Gallagher (no, it's a different one) plays a smooth blond part with a certain amount of contributory laughter...
...greedy newspapers, swollen with the story, alarmed the finical Florenz. He wired his press agent to keep Imogene out of the newspapers...
Referring to the American Owen D. Young, who helped form the Experts' Report under the presidency of the American Charles G. Dawes, the Neue Berliner Zeitung said that in his capacity as agent of reparations he would wield more power than ever did Wilhelm Hohenzollern in the youth of his glory. Under the heading "His Majesty, Owen I," the paper referred to him as "the secret Emperor of Germany...
...like experience. Among these men is Gray Silver. It is Gray Silver who has been chosen to head this tremendous project of the farmers. The public does not know Gray Silver very well, but any Con- gressman or any farmer knows all about him. Gray Silver is the Legislative Agent of the Farm Bureau Federation. He is the Federation's mouthpiece in Washington, keeps tab on the legislation that farmers are interested in. He is probably the greatest of the new type of lobbyist. The old type of lobbyist was a man who went around pulling wires, invoicing "pull...