Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot's handbag. The immediate cause of so much frustration is given in Claude...
Despite the very informal attire which became the rule among undergraduates in an effort to avoid the heat the clothing stores reported a record breaking business selling light flannel trousers and linen knickers. One salesman declared that his organization disposed of its entire stock of knickers in the first two days of blistering heat and had to send in a rush order for 100 more pairs...
...short talk about the various lines of work his office has to offer to students. Dean Delmar Leighton '19 will speak on the relation of summer work to vocations. A third speaker, intimately connected with sales work, will discuss the financial possibilities of spending the summer as a salesman. The speaker has not yet been definitely secured, but Mr. Daly expects to obtain some well known salesman for the occasion...
...myriad-minded means to have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They...
Before beginning his demonstration, Munn gave a brief talk, describing his experiences since his graduation from Nebraska. After service in the Army during the war, he entered business, working for some months as a salesman. But at the urgence of some of his friends, he deserted business and returned to athletics as a profession. After a brief and unsuccessful career as a boxer, he took up wrestling, and in 11 months worked his way to his present position in the wrestling world...