Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover, the archenemy of the farmer, we shall have debated from now until the date of the convention. Hoover, the amateur in politics, is pretty generally forgotten. Hoover, the radical, no longer troubles the bond salesman's slumber. Hoover, the British patriot, we shall have with us whenever Senator Reed is on the scene. Discount these four Hoovers. What sort of a Hoover have we left...
...travelers, both birdwitted. One is male, the other female. They meet on a train where the man in order to have the woman to himself cleans the observation car of passengers by referring to his recent case of the pox. Nothing happens, nothing matters beyond the fact that the salesman is Ralph Forbes, good looking, ineffectual, and the saleswoman is Norma Shearer, beautiful, wasted...
Sporting Goods. The tradition that youthful salesmanship ranks in romance with search for the Holy Grail forms the basis for this fossilated farce. Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission. It gags and gurgles about the young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000. Director Malcolm St. Clair, smart maker of the recent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was more interested...
...being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community. In the back of the Atheists' report is a list of the Board of Directors...
Miss Brady plays a poverty stricken preacher's daughter. Desperate, when her worthy father loses his pastorate, she turns to evangelism under the canny tutelage of a red headed Bible salesman. She loves a worthless young man who stumbles into her temple tent just in time to be swept away by her passionate call for converted sinners. Later she must tell him it was fakery...