want ad

Historical Examples of want ad

• Before the old man could answer they had reached the want-ad counter.

  Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

  Mildred A. Wirt

• I was told the Enquirer posted the “want-ad” sheets of the paper at its back door an hour before daylight.

  Broke

  Edwin A. Brown

• Thinking that Mr. Malcom might have gone back to the want-ad department, she hastily returned there.

  Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

  Mildred A. Wirt