Word: saleswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Charles & Co. was forced to close its doors during store hours. The crowd was then put in line, handled like any cinema overflow. The 220 Charles employes were loyal to the store, resentful of the newfangled ways that had helped to kill it. One customer asked a busy saleswoman on the second floor: "Is this the Hostess Shop?" Said the clerk: "Ha, it was, madam, or so they say it was. I never thought...
Associated with Mr. Jacobs was a small, extravagantly mustached press agent named Benjamin Sonnenberg, whose tasks in the past have included making Mrs. Roosevelt a shoe saleswoman on the radio, promoting Trader Horn and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent Sonnenberg last week met five bridge players from France when they landed in Manhattan. Having beaten the masters of twelve nations at Brussels last June, the French team imagined that it and the Four Aces, winner of the Spingold, Vanderbilt and a dozen other U. S. trophies, would settle down...
...choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...
...Manila a saleswoman in a white-faced department store said: "I think it is most foolish. The leaders should be spanked...
Burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight-time U. S. woman's tennis champion, revealed that she and her husband, Broker Franklin I. Mallory, are now "poor," that she will soon open a sports shop for women in Manhattan. For six weeks late ly Mrs. Mallory had a job as saleswoman in Saks Fifth Avenue, swank department store. "Well, they fired me. I guess I wasn't so much a drawing card as they hoped I'd be ... you're soon forgot...