Word: broom
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...fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial manager of the company's business in Canada. He became part owner and vice president of Raymond & Whitcomb Co.. travel agents, and then assistant to President Seward Prosser in Liberty National Bank...
...cannot be left to suffer all night, until some servant shall dispose of it. You lift the trap and the creature, back broken, raises on its fore legs, biting in all directions, seeking to reach the hand that would end its misery. Placed, with the trap on a whisk broom, for convenient carrying, its little teeth bite fiercely at the broom...
High point of humor was Harry Richman's scene after the intermission, selling a broom to a housewife by radio advertising technique (including quartet). But the main box office insurance, besides frequent and generous glimpses of lovely Zigs, remained the injections of nostalgia. These were administered in two ways, for contrast. Under a sidewalk perspective of the Empire State Building, industrious Mr. Richman sang while the company pranced a stagger-jazz cacophony called "Doing the New York," sure to make out-of-towners feel well away from home. And out of a hard-drinking penthouse party scene were developed...
Chancellor Brüning stuck to his threat, hammered out for enactment (by decree, if the Reichstag refuses to vote it next week) a Reform program which metal-minded German editors at once called "the iron broom of destiny...