Word: vendors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment, however, is a "probosciphone," a small metal device that fits over the nose and on which he can produce a shrill tune by blowing hard. So far neither Mrs. Scott, the former Margaretta Morris, nor anyone else can play the probosciphone which Mr. Scott bought from a street vendor for a dime. Lawyer Scott also enjoys philosophical speculation. He thinks there are "at least 50,000,000 people" who cannot define a "unit." His own definition: "A unit is anything that anybody chooses to consider as such...
...devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...
...Nizam of Hyderabad is supposed to have once refused to pay 6? for a dab of ice cream, rebuking the vendor for asking this "high price." In Sunday supplements he is said to have his worn clothing cut down to fit the next smaller member of the Royal Family, and so on. In fact the World's Richest Man is just about as tight & loose with his money as the poorer John D. Rockefellers. One of his old Hyderabad customs is never to receive one of his subjects, no matter how poor, unless the subject brings a cash present...
Eliot House news-gobblers have been dragging their poor dining-room paper-vendor for a block of brick smokehouses during the last few weeks...
Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...