commercial traveler
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Cheever's father, a model for Leander in the Wapshot books, was a shoe salesman�"a commercial traveler with a flower in his buttonhole," says Cheever.
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Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission.
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Blotner has salvaged a number of fine stories from back-issue oblivion and, in the process, presented an intriguing portrait of the artist as a commercial traveler.
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A short time ago a Chinese soldier by the name of Li entered the legation quarter at Peking and walloped one A. K. Campbell, British commercial traveler.
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The company comprised a charming and interesting group of French ex-royalties, and a live German king, who looked like a commercial traveler.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)