Word: vendor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chargedwith uttering exclamations of joy when he heard of the assassination of President Paul Doumer, one Comrade Hautefeuille, a Communist street vendor, was sentenced in Paris last week to one year's imprisonment...
...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...
...James Cash Penney, chainstore tycoon, paid $8.25 per lb. for 920-lb. World's Grand Champion Lucky Strike. World's Champion beef commands fancy prices when served in hotels or dining cars, brings its vendor publicity...
...aged 35 and four months, weighing what he said was 149 lb., and what some observers estimated as high as 165, not discouraged by the fact that all his oldtime opponents have retired (to become, variously, a boxing instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny...
...particularly stirring case-history of a girl who misbehaves, reforms, reverts to misbehavior, then to reformation. Much of the action takes place in a small-town hotel where traveling salesmen are shown engaged in chores and recreation. Particularly partial to the latter is an aged, bald-headed casket vendor (Guy Kibbee). He chuckles quietly when a lady drinks herself unconscious, employs the absurd severity of inebriation in telling the heroine that there is nothing worth crying about...