Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...
...Michigan clergyman; that Mr. Baromeo is a native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers felt justified in taking credit to themselves in the knowledge that these artists are really U.S. artists and that their presence in the company indicates the gradual emergence of U. S. musical culture from the domination of Europe. On going further, however, their enthusiasm must have been chilled...
...Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold an idea to an irate Irishwoman. She was the empress of a Philadelphia slum section he wanted badly...
...Observers thought that seldom before has a great statesman spoken so frankly and unashamedly in the manner of a shrewd, traveling salesman...