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Word: groceryman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dime Groceries | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE THE PEERAGE? | 4/24/1924 | See Source »

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