Word: hucksterism
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...editor, and eventually landed at Macy's. There her copy (such as Macy's famed slogan, "It's Smart To Be Thrifty") established her as the store's highest paid copywriter. She went on to Wanamaker's, then to Gimbels. As its No. 1 huckster for the last six years, stout, bosomy Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, "almost 50," earns almost $100,000 a year for such sloganeering as "Gimbels HAS," "NOBODY but nobody beats Gimbels," and "The horse with the hansom behind doesn't come to plain, old Gimbels...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...
...Brooklyn last week, Huckster Stanley Meola blew up when a cop told him to move his pushcart off famed Fulton Street. Meola, an ex-Army cook, bawled: "I fought the war for the likes of you. I refuse to move on!" That night in court he discovered his mistake. The cop was an ex-Army captain of infantry, just back from four major campaigns in the South Pacific...
...news by word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
Grandfather with an East Side Background, a thin-faced, sallow figure with resentful eyes, in a black Sunday suit and derby, angled against a sad line of shops, a huckster, a synagogue...