floor-walker

• “How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, -- a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and - span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox.”

  CHAPTER IX

• “Another review said of one of the Bond films that I looked like a "floor-walker who had been to Switzerland three times for a facelift".”

  The Guardian: Portrait of the artist: Roger Moore, actor

• “But all the day she suffered from an almost overwhelming desire to recite her sorrow to the world -- to the paying teller at the bank, to the elderly floor-walker in”

  CHAPTER XI

• “He was a Bill Wrenn with the cosmopolitan polish of a floor-walker.”

  Our Mr. Wrenn

• “Hortense, who, because of the hovering floor-walker, was pretending to show Clyde some handkerchiefs, was now thinking how unfortunate that a whole twenty-four hours must intervene before she could bring him to view the coat with her — and so have an opportunity to begin her machinations.”

  An American Tragedy

• “He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.”

  Main Street

• “He knew she dressed very well, had always the best of everything in the house, and was inevitably waited upon by the head floor-walker at the very least.”

  This Side of Paradise

• “I approached the "floor-walker," and handing him my sample, said:”

  Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

• “He started back up the room, but the girl had disappeared, and, while he stood hesitating, a floor-walker approached.”

  The Rim of the Desert

• “GLADYS: No, darling, he is the floor-walker in a slaughter house.”

  Writing for Vaudeville

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