Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made famous in vaudeville and revues and strung them together in a loose and often ludicrous adventure. There is no story. Mr. Fields plays a village druggist who involves himself in a variety of domestic difficulties. His lovely clerk (Louise Brooks) runs away with a real estate salesman. Outside of the few metropoles which have watched Mr. Fields do all the sketches on the stage the show will be liberal and erratic amusement...
...upon this record. Dissatisfied with its servant of the past four terms, Representative Oscar E. Keller, the League advanced a new candidate in Keller's district (St. Paul). Keller ran on his record independently when out of the business district suddenly appeared a 28-year-old Wet bond salesman, one Melvin J. Maas, to confound them both. St. Paul voters gave Salesman Maas more votes than his Dry opponents could find between them. Said the League: "It makes no difference," meaning that Keller was no longer a satisfactory Dry anyway. But the League's foes were jubilant...
...Where was a bond salesman nominated for Congress...
...compare a prosperous bond-salesman of the American species with an Arunta tribesman is in the sociological sense by no means derogatory. Totems are as fundamental as anything in the curious network of superstitions, contracts, and shibboleths which arise from the social intermingling of individuals. The totem in both cases rests on a fairly common basis, a kindred, actual or supposed, and its manifestations its parades and its war cries, are equally noble or ridiculous...
...strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...