Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoofer in the three-a-day?where are their stories? Where are the stories of the people without inherited incomes who have neither time, money nor opportunity for the elegant complications of country club life? They themselves are inarticulate? But is anyone more inarticulate artistically than the average bond salesman...
...according to the current issue of the Journal, is to "reduce sales-resistance by analyzing your buyer's library." If he reads Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey, solid comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful and harmonious surroundings will be limited only by his income. We wonder if the research managers of large real-estate corporations furnish their young salesmen with charts something like this...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...
Sued for divorce. Mrs. Marie Gerke (Marie Prevost), cinema actress, by H. C. Gerke, automobile salesman, in Los Angeles. He charged desertion. She was generally believed to be unmarried until the divorce suit was filed...
...exceedingly difficult task: that of writing tragedy in terms of comedy. His new theme is one that either Rachel Crothers or Booth Tarkington might have chosen: the story of the breaking down of a family due to the frothy characteristics of a rather ordinary American husband-a bond salesman, a $10,000-a-year man. Miss Crothers would have discussed her problem at length and her adolescents would have represented a current difficulty in the younger generation. Mr. Tarkington would have made fun of his people. You would have been laughing at them from curtain to curtain...