Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voiced Canadian named Harold F. Ritchie as he lay on a Toronto operating table. His name is not found on many rosters of the business great, yet he had good claim to the proud title of "World's Greatest Salesman." His Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd. is a globe-embracing network of sales agencies through which such commodities as Rubberset brushes, Tanglefoot fly paper, Glover's Mange Cure and Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy have been broadcast over six continents. His, too, the control of such famed products as Eno's Fruit Salt, Scott...
...last, inglorious attempt to gain the transient rays of public favor of a certain type, he threw aside his habit of bagging cats for a neighboring Medical School, and took up politics. When however, both the city editor of the Boston Post, and the managing editor of the Boston Globe refused to exonerate him publicly from leading the movement to "Buy American" he was compelled by the pressure of academic engagements o give up his career, and forfeit his life for the benefit of this creators...
...pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...
...evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches who haunted Cheapside. Past the bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry on to one of the inns, a warm fire, dinner, and the canary...
...value lies deeper in the spontaneity and simplicity of purpose which separate it completely from its deplorably self-conscious contemporaries. In a sense, it might be termed a reversion to the Elizabethan spirit. which arbitrarily inserted comedy into tragedy and tragedy into comedy, in order that audiences at the Globe standing elbow to elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards...