expressman
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As Harry Truman stepped off the Presidential Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat."
From Time Magazine Archive
The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a man, it means signing a lease or something of that kind and perhaps hiring an expressman.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
She had her opinion of expressmen, express companies, and especially of the firm of Hibbert & Jones.
From Mike Flannery On Duty and Off by Butler, Ellis Parker
All were making a frantic attempt to hire expressmen with any kind of vehicle that would move, and most of them were failing.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard
There it went, thumpity, thump down the stairs—those expressmen are so careless, and I was quite unaware whose trunk it was, or I might have reported it to your mother.
From Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' by Reed, Helen Leah
It looked curious to see expressmen and teamsters wearing those veils.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard
A few of the families who could secure willing expressmen possessed cooking stoves, but over 95 per cent of the refugees had to do their cooking on little camp fires made of brick or stone.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard
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