Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While I was laid up with a fractured limb, my time was quite valueless, and shortly after having told my wife the story of the Northern salesman telling the Southern "cracker" that if he fed his hogs corn they would fatten up in one-half the time, to which the cracker had rejoined, "Aw, what's time to a hog," I happened to ask my wife "what time it was" she replied, "aw what's TIME...
...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
...task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid. The jealous Argentine stabs the sugar daddy, the newspapers take Dixie up, the Evening Tab kidnaps her (offering a reward...
...newsgatherer good enough to be trusted with a moderately important story, a country doctor, a law clerk, an assistant branch manager of a plumbing concern, a young salesman get about $3,700. Anyone who gets $3,700 per year can easily remember the figure $3,700,000,000.00 because that is just one million times his salary. To remember that figure became last week a patriotic duty, because that is the figure which Brig. Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord, funny-story-telling Director of the Budget, put down as the cost of U. S. (federal) government for the fiscal year July...
...deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...