Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characterizations that really carried the show was Avon Long's portrayal of "Sportin' Life" peddler of happy dust extraordinary. With a voice almost as bad as Rochester's Long by his incredibly smooth and graceful dance-like capers turns his weakness into a triumphant asset in his rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...
...stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats with futile hands against the portals of my brain. Proud fool! . . . Shall my dust taste better than a peddler's when the worms...
...Chicago, Fulton Market buzzed with rumors about Pete Golas. Pete was paunchy (220 lb.), greying (52), scarfaced and vain. He refused to have his picture taken, as he considered a 15-year-old photograph (see cut) his best portrait. Until last fall, he was just a small-time peddler of livers and hearts. From dark meat to black meat was an easy step for Pete. He branched out grandly and mysteriously, bought control of a string of slaughterhouses from Omaha to Manhattan...
Tantrum. In Manhattan, a policeman complained that when he told Peddler Raymond Vasquez to move along he had thrown himself on the ground and lain there screaming and kicking...