Chic Sale
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Chic Sale
From the pen name of Charles Partlow (1885–1936), American actor and author of The Specialist (1929), a humorous treatise on outhouse construction
Example Sentences
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It is getting so that you can tell a Southern farmer's politics by his "Chic Sale."
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Not since its music critic called Liberace a "butcher" musician and "Chic Sale" humorist did the San Francisco Examiner get as many irate letters on a single subject.
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American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags.
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In 1879, when the Brothers Scott were delivering scratch pads, paper bags and wrapping paper in their own pushcart, toilet paper was distinctly in the Chic Sale tradition; in their privies most U. S. citizens used old newspapers and catalogues or unmarked pads of rough yellow paper clamped together with staples.
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Chic Sale loses his horsecar job for letting Jackie drive and is on his way to the poor-farm.
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