Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medicine for Business. Last October Rosie entertained her last guest. When police broke into her apartment they found her strangled with her own stockings. The police moved gingerly in the case, gently questioned a number of big industrialists, finally arrested an unemployed salesman named Pohlmann, who insisted loudly that he was not the murderer. Most tabloid-reading Germans believe...
...from the Throne with the heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample: $37 for eight weeks' advice, plus...
...pocket money in high school by tutoring less brainy kids in Latin and Greek. "We all thought he was going to be famous," a high school classmate recalls. "We figured he'd be a great lawyer or politician." After high school, Charlie worked as a department-store furniture salesman until a prosperous older cousin, living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing...
...shooting stick between each stroke, burying his face in his hands and moodily wondering how to get his drives out of the rough and his putts into the hole. Still, the 1949 Amateur champ and veteran Walker Cupper somehow got through each round, finally defeated Ohio Blanket Salesman Roger McManus 3 and 2 on the 34th hole to make it to the finals...
...begins to wonder if in some way she had not asked for what happened. At length, her puzzled and angered parents seem to join the enemy, and Toni, trying to play the role she has been assigned, is last seen in a Pullman sleeper, giving herself to a salesman who has been kind...