Word: peddler
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...Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
...Republican of the brewery and bloody shirt will not do. There must be some disguise. The window dressing, this stalking horse, this bearer southward of the Judas kiss, seems to have been acquired in the person of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho." He described Senator Borah as a "peddler of political wares which he himself did not believe in when they were being made...
...take exception to your article under the heading "People" concerning Mrs. Cora Bennett in your July 16 issue. The business of life insurance, today, needs no defender and the person who sells this service, whether it be man, woman or widow belongs in a higher classification than a peddler. . . . Mrs. Bennett is not the first widow who has been forced to sell the very commodity for lack of which her erstwhile husband makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when the life insurance business is more and more considered as a profession by those...
...Died. Thomas Barlow Walker, 88, lumberman, art collector, philanthropist; of old age; in Minneapolis. Once a peddler of grindstones to farmers, he was recently said to have a fortune of $100,000,000, much of which he gave to the city of Minneapolis (The Walker Art Galleries, the Public Library, etc.) and to various charities...
Leopold Zimmermann has lived for three-quarters of a century and he has often played a lone hand. A peddler, with a willow basket full of shoe strings and suspenders, driving bargains in a German accent on the doorsteps of Manhattan. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1870. A thriving broker, with offices on Wall Street where the New York Stock Exchange now stands. In those days (the '80s) the sign above the door said Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices...