Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford, who accepted a $1 500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes shortly after setting up a meeting with Agriculture Department officials now finds himself seriously threatened in his 300-mile-wide district by Republican Ed Foreman, an Odessa businessman who brings up Billie Sol at every stop...
Nebraska is fairly prosperous, and other issues come down to a conflict of personal political image. Morrison recently looked up at a big Seaton billboard and quipped: "Looks like a Hart Schaffner & Marx ad to me." Seaton, a publisher of ten newspapers, is indeed a well-dressed, well-pressed businessman, who cannot quite bring himself to match Morrison's sloppy suits and exposed suspenders. He has, however, taken to sports shirts in the cattle country...
...customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame," complained one Monégasque businessman, "but we have our wall of ridicule...
GANGER: The Businessman's Adman
...long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown as an Etonian, an obtuse and thundering bore as a successful businessman, a disastrous figure of Freudian fun as a lover, Widmerpool, as Powell says in a hundred ways, is the sort of man this age was designed for. In Widmerpool is seen the force of Powell's art-a deadly bore in life becomes a fascinating character in fiction...