groceryman
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"I just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week.
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The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake.
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August F. Seested, 64, president & general manager of The Kansas City Star, native of Denmark, son of a groceryman; of stomach trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Died.
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The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S.
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"There, you drop that," said the groceryman to the bad boy, as he came limping into the store, and began to fumble around a box of strawberries.
From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen.
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The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure.
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Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps.
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In England, gentlemen's sons did not make friends of grocerymen, and it seemed to him a rather singular proceeding.
From Little Lord Fauntleroy by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The men were paid monthly checks and had never heard any complaint from their landlords and grocerymen who were willing to wait for their pay.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
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