land-office business
Example Sentences
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Nowhere was the search for jobs more frenzied than in the noontime babble at the National Capital Democratic Club, a luncheon club that suddenly found itself doing a land office business.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had started a dry canteen when we left Quebec, and it was doing a land office business.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister
GOLDIE: Gee, but you're doing a land office business.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
He was in a happy and expansive frame of mind, for he had done a "land office" business in this frontier village which he was now for the first time visiting.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic
