Word: peddlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Poll. In Seattle, a door-to-door peddler offered "No Peddlers or Agents" signs. Where he made no sales, he returned to peddle gadgets...
Four days later, Francisco Arvallo, a peddler, driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He had cut one wrist, tried to slake his thirst with his own blood. These two were the only survivors. Some of the others had stumbled for miles across the sand, looking for water. Nine miles off, Tomas Ponce had scratched on border monument No. 201: "Dying of thirst, hungry." Dead...
Salesman. In Philadelphia, the Better Business Bureau hunted an elusive peddler who sold tired lawnmower-pushers seed for strictly "two-inch grass." Research. At Troy, N.Y., an experimenting biologist proved to his own satisfaction that the larger a goldfish's eyes, the less it sees...
Riley's big chance came when the Japanese took Shanghai in 1937. The New Order in East Asia has been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...
...money for 30 years. One day she retired, set out to visit him. He was not, as he claimed, the parish priest in her home town in Moravia. After "a labyrinthine meandering through her nephew's long-forgotten past," she found him in haunted Prague. He was a peddler of horoscopes, fireworks, feelthy post cards...