Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Forzely, or Forzelli, was his real name. He was a race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
Louiseboulanger. To Louiseboulanger belongs the credit of discovering the secret of the down-in-the-back hemline. Primarily a dressmaker, rather than dress seller, she amuses herself by studying the personality of unusual women, then designing costumes to suit them. Her greatest triumph has been with the Actress Spinelly, whose frocks are an annual Parisian wonder...
That is how Maxwell House coffee became the biggest advertised brand of coffee and the biggest seller. It is beginning to sell in foreign markets. Postum's sales agencies abroad will hasten Maxwell House's further expansion...
BUT?GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES ?Anita Loos?Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Well, it seems that nothing makes a publisher become so sentimental in a financial way as the day he can call an authoress a best seller. I mean, a writer of the well-read books. I mean, he will give anything for more of my thoughts, because they seem to have intreeged the interest of people that pay for literature. And since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married...
...American Prosperity", by Paul Mazur '14, has been a best seller in the none-fiction class for several months. "America Finding Herself", by Mark Sullivan '00, is another volume which ranks among the most popular works of the spring...