Word: agents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ticket "from Manhattan to San Francisco." Him they send to lodging houses or other social service societies. The child, girl or woman, if relatives cannot be reached immediately, is taken to the Guest House of the Manhattan Society on E. 43rd St. If traveling funds are needed, the Manhattan agent wires to relatives or to the Travelers Aid worker in the far city...
...goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home from France with the family and becomes Uncle Bliss' agent without a quiver. The book doesn't prove a thing: first impressions to the contrary, it doesn't even try to. Perhaps that is why it makes passable, sometimes delightful reading...
...persuasive, clear-eyed man of 62 was not a book agent. When his lips quirked into their celebrated "Mona Lisa smile," he was not attempting to convey by innuendo that the pages of Thucydides are often frank, to say the least. When he strode up and down with impatient nervous steps, the pressmen did not attribute this activity to the bombast of salesmanship. Rather they congratulated this great statesman, former Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, upon the completion of a labor no less monumental because self-imposed : his translation into modern Greek of Thucydides' great history, with an exhaustive commentary...
Married. Miss Elsie de Wolfe, 61, famed interior decorator, member of the onetime "bachelor girls' triumvirate" (the others being Miss Anne Morgan, 53, daughter of the late J. P. Morgan; and famed authors' agent; Miss Elisabeth Marbury, 70), recipient of the Cross of the Legion of Honor and of the French War Cross; to Sir Charles Mendl, 54, Paris Representative of Foreign Office News Department; at Paris, in the British Consulate...
...Ohio Bell, Cincinnati & Suburban Bell (29%) Michigan Bell, Indiana Bell, Wisconsin Tel., Illinois Bell, Northwestern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Mountain States T. & T., Pacific T. & T., Bell Tel. Laboratories, Bell Tel. Securities, Bell Tel. of Canada, Central Union Tel., Cuban-American T. & T., Western Electric (almost exclusive manufacturing agent), 195 Broadway Corp., 205 Broadway Corp. Portions of their individual earnings go to the profit of the parent corporation...