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3 unusual facts about Peddler


George Platt Brett

George Brett started with Macmillan in 1913 as a traveling salesman and took over as President of Macmillan in 1931.

Peddler

Warmonger, recorded since 1590 (Spenser's "Faerie Queene"), likely more widespread than any of the literal uses

In many economies this work was often left to nomadic minorities, such as Gypsies, travellers, or Yeniche, offering a varied assortment of goods and services, both evergreens and (notoriously suspicious) novelties.


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El chevrolé

The film is named based on the mispronounced name of an authentic Chevrolet car, transformed into a peddler car, which appears on the main scenes.

Ernest Truex

In another Twilight Zone episode, "What You Need", he played a traveling peddler who just happened to have exactly what people needed just before they knew they needed it.

Gulshan Devaiah

This was followed by a small role as a smooth talking drug peddler 'Ricky' in "Dum Maro Dum", directed by Rohan Sippy.

Jesko Friedrich

Friedrich plays the role of Johannes Schlüter, a character who works absurd jobs in every episode (for example as speaker on women's rights for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, bush pilot, or peddler of flags ready to be burned by protesters), and is interviewed by Kaupp.

Mart Duggan

In March, 1888, Duggan arrested a jewelry peddler, and when the charges were dropped and Duggan was fined $25 for unlawful arrest, he resigned from the police force.

Songs by Tom Lehrer

In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz sampled "The Old Dope Peddler" for his song "Dope Peddler," from his album Based on a T.R.U. Story.

Tessie O'Shea

In 1963, Noël Coward created the part of the fish and chips peddler "Ada Cockle" specifically for O'Shea in his Broadway musical, The Girl Who Came to Supper.

The Cloth Peddler

The Cloth Peddler or Arşın Mal Alan may refer to several Azerbaijani films and plays.

Thomas Waterman Wood

As examples of his work in this direction the following may be mentioned: The Yankee Pedlar had for its model a tin peddler known as "Snapping Tucker", a resident of Calais, Vermont.

Xavier de Montépin

The author of serialised novels (feuilletons) and popular plays, he is best known for the 19th-Century best-seller, La Porteuse de pain (The Bread Peddler), which was first published in Le Petit Journal, from 1884 to 1889, and underwent many adaptations for theatre, film and television.


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