Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meaning of Realtor...
While speculation has run wild over the destiny of the Waldorf-Astoria site, the shadow of a rumor of far more significance has fallen over another stretch of multi-million-dollar Fifth Avenue frontage. Frightened words have trickled from realtor circles to newspaper sanctums, and once or twice a timid hint has been printed...
President & Mrs. Coolidge dined at the house of the Secretary of State & Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, of St. Paul. Other Minnesotans present, with their ladies, were Sumner Thomas McKnight (banker, realtor, expert on criminal pardons & paroles), John Sargent Pillsbury (flour-"Eventually. Why Not Now?"), President Donald John Cowling of Carleton College at Northfield. Also present was Dr. William Holland Wilmer, ophthalmologist...
...Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites...
Wafted along by George Gershwin's symphonies, the story is that of a highborn scioness, financially but never socially embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...