Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zenith. Two years after Main Street, Novelist Lewis did a similar job for the U.S. small city (Zenith) and the U.S. businessman. George F. Babbitt, the rotund realtor, trapped in the dilemmas of middle-aged marriage and infidelity and the saurian rip and slash of pitiless business competition, was Lewis' most human and lovable character, as Babbitt was his most mature work...
...British shop in favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...
Last year the Big Father's amiable, balding son, Van Guelder Okie, sold the last 16,000 of Lost Cabin's sheep. By last month only 14 people remained on the ranch and in the town. Realtor Ben Scherck had scores of queries from interested people, but doubted that they would buy (one hopeful client believed the ranch could be converted into a helicopter factory). Most would also find the price ($125,000) a little steep. Last week Scherck got tick fever, retired to his bed, groaning, "God, I ache all over." But he brightened at a visit...
...Roost. In Berkeley, Calif., a Mrs. Chick sold her house to a Mrs. Crane, bought a new one through a realtor named Mrs. Gosling...
Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but the deal fell through...