Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...define what Sam Dodsworth was, at fifty, it is easier to state what he was not. He was none of the things which most Europeans and many Americans expect in a leader of American industry. He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon. He rarely shouted, never slapped people on the back, and he had attended only six baseball games since 1900. He knew, and thoroughly, the Babbitts and baseball fans, but only in business...
...millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom and insisted upon being taken abroad...
Their Story. When they sailed, Fran knew what she wanted−romance, and a luxurious orgy of aristocracy, after the mediocrity of Zenith; but Sam only knew that he'd like to see the land of his ancestors, inspect the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants; then, refreshed, rush home to work at a motor caravan idea for campers, or a residential section for Zenith that should be guiltless of Tudor castles and Swiss chateaux...
...representatives occurred last week in Vienna where 40 U. S. commercial attaches from all Europe gathered to hear a trade talk by Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce now traveling abroad. Foreign countries saw in this business conference only another manifestation of "Salesman Sam." The London Daily Express snorted...
...Today "Sam" White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...