Pitcher

Usage examples of salesman.

Apparently the only outsider the La Cima citizens had allowed to stay for a while was a galvanized tin salesman.

Behind it, Dreidel sticks his head out like an anxious housewife surprised by a salesman.

Her husband, the vice president of Henderson Petroleum, had been backed into a corner by insurance salesman Carl Godet and was trying to edge away gracefully.

A salesman who succeeds in selling refrigerators to Eskimos to prevent food from freezing would be as much of an innovator as if he had developed brand-new processes or invented a new product.

She was accustomed to the friendly Majo, the slight salesman who usually staffed the store.

He made a hand pass and the Kelvin in the mirror was newly attired almost as nattily as was the salesman.

So did Okey Shurn, which was natural enough, since he was supposed to be a traveling salesman too.

While Klebbert guided Mordant into a waiting automobile, an old model but of expensive make, Okey listened attentively to the comments of the bone fide salesmen who sat in the line of hotel chairs.

The other man waiting, a smartish youngster of the salesman type, spoke without looking up from the sporting sheet he was studying.

In the latter case, a foreign corporation, which had not been issued a license to do business in Washington, but which systematically and continuously employed a force of salesmen, residents thereof, to canvass for orders therein, was held suable in Washington for unpaid unemployment compensation contributions in respect to such salesmen.

But it sure as hell fit the man Tamber had become, living in New England and working as a salesman for a chocolate bar distributor.

To Mark, with a long experience of their kind gained in his travels and time as a law officer, they spelled cheap tinhorn card shark, goldbrick salesmen, or petty thief.

Well, Colmer thought gloomily, facing up to it, most writers were nuts anyway, or else they would be real estate salesmen, where the big money was, or editors De Wike kept pestering him about heading their science fiction department.

This vast formation, so precise and rigid, yet so quick and fluid to change course or rearrange itself, a seagoing miracle surely beyond the dreams of Nelson himself, was maintained with careless ease by hundreds of officers of the deck, not one in ten of whom was a professional seaman: college boys, salesmen, schoolteachers, lawyers, clerks, writers, druggists, engineers, farmers, piano players-these were the young men who outperformed the veteran officers of the fleets of Nelson.

I now realized that I had to consume the books in the closet faster than Potch, an enterprising salesman, could retrieve them.