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When World War II began, German-born George Viereck again peddled ideology for the Fatherland and profit. A naturalized U.S. citizen, registered in Washington as a German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...
Playing the title roles they made famous in 1935, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown acted capably, sang delightfully. Best new comer: Avon Long, who, as the dope peddler Sportin' Life, darted and capered with salamander-like skill...
When 20-year-old Adam, immigrant Bavarian peddler, opened his "Palace of Trade" in Vincennes in 1842, his policies looked mighty suspicious to the 1,700 townspeople: no haggling, one price to all. But it worked. His seven sons, banding together as the Gimbel Brothers, mushroomed the business into a chain of nine great stores, whose sales in 1941 were probably about $115,000,000, profits (before taxes...
...Porgy and Bess" is not only this love story with its surrounding characters, Maria the dowager of the community, Sportin' Life the peddler of "happy dust," and the many other finely drawn minor parts. It is really a story of the Negro and the life he leads. Here are all the sudden joys and sorrows, the fear of death, of the white man's law, and of God. Above all here is portrayed the spirit of lazy sunshine and happiness and the native rhythm which enables the Negro to sing of his pain as well as of his pleasure...
...sentry on a country road saw a peddler trudging along the road with his dog. The dog ran to the edge of the ditch, whining piteously, and apparently anxious to relieve itself. The peddler, however, would not let him stop, but dragged him along by his leash. The sentry, who was a great lover of animals, felt angry; he ordered the peddler to let the dog do what it wanted. The poor animal, which was evidently in difficulties, finally got rid of a silvery metal tube. Since the sentry had never heard that dogs were accustomed to excrete such articles...