Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes...
...graduate of Choate and Yale, he started as a pickle-salting hand for $1 a day in the Plymouth, Ind. plant where his father started before him. Later stints in the Berkeley, Calif, plant as cleanup man and in the London branch as pickle peddler helped him through the lower ranks. In 1936 he settled down in Pittsburgh for final grooming before taking over the family empire...
...Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program...
...wacky and it was wistful, like a beggar's dream. Cried sallow Santi Paladino, Italy's newest peddler of political nostrums: "With a federation of the United States, Italy and some other nations, and a lot of atomic bombs, there would be no wars. This would solve all of Italy's problems...
...outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy. If The River Road sometimes seems as long...