Word: tradesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came last week an elderly Berlin shoemaker commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...apparent expense involved in the advice therein offered. The expense, however, is only apparent. No one ever thinks of paying his tailor out of his allowance. The correct thing is to let the bill run, and not pay it at all, --payment encourages impudence: but if the tradesman grows clamorous and threatens jail, all you have to do is to plead minority, and let your parents and guardians settle the matter at their convenience
Such was the fame of his eloquence that he gave up the law for the bigger Chatau-qua money. Incessantly he spoke on the small tradesman and farmer, and wrote about them in The Commoner, weekly journal of one man's opinion, which endured through 22 years in spite of its spotty journalism and shortage of advertisements. For on principle Bryan refused to accept advertising of trust-made goods, though his sheet "reeked with patent medicine advertising." Indifferent to his meagre advertising columns, he reveled in belaboring the Republicans for their sins, championed religious freedom (the Dayton trial...
...servants to vote Warburton. Anita ("Prefer Blondes") Loos chased her busband (Onetime-Actor John Emerson) to the polls to do likewise. Arthur Hammerstein was fetched from the links by his wife, who used to be Dorothy Dalton. Producer Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the scene at the Town Hall. Many a tradesman advertised his shop by voting as Wealth suggested. Result: Warburton, 482; other candidates...