Word: shoestringer
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No wholly tractable witness was "O. P." His memory of figures and dates was defective, he refused consistently to "guess." Time and again he answered, "I don't know. We will get that figure for you." or "You can get that from the records." Caustic comments about the quality...
Kiss Me. Although Desiree Ellinger (formerly of Rose Marie) and the rest of the cast strove valiantly, they proved unavailing against a 5 & lOc musical comedy production that seems to have been assembled by an auctioneer, tied together with a shoestring and marked down for quick sale.
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur...
THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A shrewd and tingling satire of theatrical business when the shoestring on which it is conducted breaks.
Many hundreds of thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a...