Word: groceryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. August F. Seested, 64, president & general manager of The Kansas City Star, native of Denmark, son of a groceryman; of stomach trouble; in Kansas City...
...store is incorporated "The G. V. Quinlan 5 & 10 Cent Stores." As yet there is only one, but Groceryman Quinlan says he will soon have five...
...there was not a feature of that service which would not have been endorsed by all churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact?and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched way. . . . There was no effusive and perfunctory handshaking by an ap- pointed committee at the door . . . the people went out from the house of worship...
...full force of this ending is brought home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...
...lowering of morale. One can never tell these days who one will sit next to when one drops in at the House of Lords. One's neighbor may be a descendant of some ancient and historic house in the north of Wales, or he may be a remarkably successful groceryman from Whitechapel. It is all most upsetting...