Word: vendor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest reports no definite cause for the crash had been ascertained. But when Mexico City heard the news it was inconsolably angry. A vegetable vendor yelled, "The gringos killed him!" A Mexican newspaper printed dark hints which added up to charges of sabotage. The Mexican Ambassador in Washington called these accusations "imbecile." But in Mexico City a mob of students stoned a U. S. school and a cordon of police was thrown around the U. S. Embassy. And when the U. S. bomber bearing the flier's body reached the Mexican capital, that too was pelted with stones...
...Peanut Vendor...
Citizens of Montgomery, Ala. noticed an old, blind Negro peanut vendor with an unusual line of sales talk: "Get yo' fresh parched peanuts, 5? a bag. Now don't you WTA workers be bashful, I'se got a special discount rate on for you all. Po' boys, we all know you all can't make no livin...
...twelve-year-old schoolgirl alleged to be the bomb-thrower by the Arabs. Two Arab peddlers were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem's Old City on the same spot where a Jewish father and son had been killed a few days before, a much-photographed lemonade vendor was killed in the new city. Near Tel Aviv an Arab taxicab was fired upon, with one killed, two wounded...
...fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand...