traveling salesman
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His father, Charles Whittaker, was a traveling salesman for a maker of burglar alarms and bank vaults.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Rowlands and Cassavetes teamed up for the first time in 1955’s “Time for Love,” she playing a humble small-town girl, he a traveling salesman who sweeps her off her feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
Set in the future — which looks like a mashup of “The Jetsons” and “Pleasantville,” Crudup plays Jack, a traveling salesman of lunar timeshares.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Thus, the idea of the traveling salesman Hill swindling the locals into investing in a boys’ marching band, with the intent of skipping town before teaching them a note, held up as well.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
