sweepings

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Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling.

From Time Magazine Archive

A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you�Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty?"

From Time Magazine Archive

In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie.

From Time Magazine Archive

All liquid and solid Manure and Street Sweepings being carried out of Town by the Sewers.

From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir

There were a number of small glass jars containing earthy substances, labeled "Pavement and Road Sweepings," from the principal thoroughfares and suburbs of London, with the sub-directions "for identifying foot-tracks."

From Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Harte, Bret