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Chamber of Commerce live-wires of nearly every major city were crackling with fair plans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boosters, hustlers, live-wires, pushers, thousands of miles apart, loudly shout or quietly whisper, hint, insinuate, brazenly state or solemnly propound their messages across the page.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he is not, he will presently be dismissed, or, to use the business term, be "let go," by a board of trustees who are themselves hustlers and live-wires.

From My Discovery of England by Leacock, Stephen