Word: toadding
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...toad (prospect who visits all the dealers, inspects, tries cars out, but never buys...
...From Toad Lane in the Lancashire textile city of Rochdale dates not only the amazing growth of British co-operation but all modern consumer cooperation. There in 1844 amid the energetic jeering of local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called...
...Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...
...Camden, N. J., Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
...disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after the War was over...