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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Chic Sale loses his horsecar job for letting Jackie drive and is on his way to the poor-farm.
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So This is Paris, musi-comedy opening in Atlantic City April 14, had an old gaffer in its cast: sharp-sighted program readers recognized Chic Sale.
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But Jackie wins a bout, saves Chic Sale from the poor-farm, everything is going to be all right.
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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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It is getting so that you can tell a Southern farmer's politics by his "Chic Sale."
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