Download or read book Stories Told by Traveling Salesman written by Alan M. Oberdeck and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book are dedicated to the group of men and women who travel by public transportation, company car and airplanes to keep the economy running. These stories reflect the reality of travel, the people they work with, the people they meet, the dangers of travel and other thoughts that go through their minds. For those who have traveled it will bring back memories of your own. For others the stories are meant to share with you a different perspective.
Download or read book Stories Told by a Traveling Salesmen written by Alan Oberdeck and published by Great Writers Media. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book are dedicated to the group of men and women who travel by public transportation, company car and airplanes to keep the economy running. These stories reflect the reality of travel, the people they work with, the people they meet, the dangers of travel and other thoughts that go through their minds. For those who have traveled it will bring back memories of your own. For others the stories are meant to share with you a different perspective.
Download or read book 100 Years on the Road written by Timothy B. Spears and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.
Download or read book The traveling man written by Truman E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of door-to-door salesmen, peddlers, and other traveling vendors; volume discusses impact of the Great Depression, tricks and swindles, etc.
Download or read book Stories from Home written by Jerry Clower and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower's book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It also shows the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show business. Nashville's funniest man had a serious side. Deep in the merry heart of this comic entertainer were the codes and values that made him an esteemed humanitarian. He was named America's best country comic for nine years in a row and was called “the funniest American storyteller since Will Rogers” and “the Mouth of the Mighty Mississippi.” This boisterous, downhome man's loving, extroverted manner and his forthright display of positive feelings for others arose from the substance of sober, rock-solid regional values he gained from maturing in the rural South. Stories from Home embraces both sides of Jerry Clower, the funny man and the serious man, and shows his anecdotal humor in the mainstream of the South's great oral tradition of folktales and narratives. Jerry Clower’s hilarious stories about possum hunting, coon dogs, and the rambunctious Ledbetter clan were standards in his stage routines, videos, and albums. In Stories from Home many of his fans' favorite Clower tales are included. Here, too, is a long interview in which he explored his beliefs and tells how he gained firm convictions about race, religion, education, and family as well as an intolerance of negativism.
Download or read book I Have a Story to Tell written by Marsialle Arbuckle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsialle Arbuckle has had a life full of tragedy and triumph, pain and glory, sorrow and celebration. Through out this work he chronicles various events of his life and the impact those events have had on him, his family, his relationships and the world around him. First he skillfully reveals the circumstances, situations, struggles, and stigmas of life in the Foster Care System and the various ways it can impact an individual and why. He also reveals the intricate recipe that motivated him to develop high aspirations and the determination to achieve them. The book provides historical reference points and the role those events or individuals have had on his psyche. As the reader is led through the twists and turns that life can create, the reader will be emotionally moved by the vivid descriptions of traumatic episodes that are life and death battles for survival. The reader will feel the heavy burdens that the writer has experienced and understand how he managed the stress of bearing those burdens. The book is intended to stimulate the mind and provoke discussion with the review of a life; a life that could be viewed from multiple perspectives. Was the glass half empty or half full? The book will inform and motivate those that are part of a dysfunctional family or dealing with the ravages of substance abuse. The book will inspire and uplift individuals and families that are battling heart disease, cancer, vascular disease or some other catastrophic health issue. It will demonstrate the awesome power of love, understanding, and prayer.
Download or read book Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories written by Sholem Aleichem and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations. And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916), the “Jewish Mark Twain,” who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem’s heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the “Railroad Stories,” twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
Download or read book The Traveling Salesman written by James Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Story Ever Told written by Peter Sheehan and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bigger than The Bible, The Koran, and Even¿ The Other Book of Pooh! Blamed for global warming, promiscuity in teenagers, economic meltdown, nearly turning Allah straight, and what happened to the dinosaurs. Life explained like never before-it¿s seeking legal advice. Free economic advice ¿ it¿s worthless, of course Expand your vocabulary without getting arrested Improve your animal husbandry skills Enhance your negotiation skills with hitherto unpublished abuse (all from watching television) Finally revealed, the answer to the question that has plagued human beings down through the ages. Now you can find out who didn¿t shoot John F. Kennedy.
Download or read book Telling Stories written by Cartledge Tony and published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling stories, Jesus often used imagination and metaphor, pulling attention-grabbing stories and images from the air. He asked his hearers to imagine someone who could examine a speck in another's eye while a plank protruded from his own, or to visualize a great camel squeezing through the eye of a needle. He spoke of a despised Samaritan who showed unexpected compassion and a bigger-barn-building landowner who thought only of himself. Jesus' hearers understood that the characters and events in those memorable stories didn't have to be real in order for the stories to be true. In his preaching experience of nearly forty years, Tony Cartledge, like many other preachers, has often told creative stories as an avenue for capturing the attention and engaging the minds of those listening to the message he was called upon to bring. His latest book, Telling Stories, contains a smorgasbord of stories and scripts that range from the possible to the fantastic, along with one that really happened. They include original stories in folktale style and monologues or dialogues designed to illuminate biblical characters. All of these stories are designed to inspire those who proclaim Christ to effectively utilize good stories in their own preaching.
Download or read book Save Room for Pie written by Roy Blount, Jr., Jr. and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to “a book to read till it falls apart” (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with food—he didn’t have to think, he just ate. But food doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount’s chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he’s always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount’s signature style. Here you’ll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You’ll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”
Download or read book Nicholas the Naked Sicilian and Other Stories written by Vincent P. Militello and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My ambition when I started this book was to allow the readers a chance to use their own imaginations and to come to their own conclusions. Nicholas is a fable. It is about a man who somehow manages to live his own life to the fullest. There are also fifteen other unconventional short stories included in this book. To sum up, I just wanted to write a thought provoking book that would be fun to read.
Download or read book Literary Digest a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Stories I Like to Tell My Friends written by T. Lindsey Baker and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining collection of colorful stories from Texas history that give readers plenty of reason to laugh, cry, and gain an even greater understanding of the people and moments that have been a part of the Texas story. "It looked like millions of stars were shooting down to the ground," said Julia Palmer Roberts, with "streaks of fire flying in every direction." The 1833 meteor shower struck fear into the hearts of people across America, including Julia's family in Texas, who met the phenomenon on their knees, praying for help during what they were sure was the end of the world. Julia's is just one of the stories that author and historian T. Lindsay Baker relates in Texas Stories I like to Tell My Friends. Baker has been finding and telling stories from Texas history for decades. Even before he published his popular Ghost Towns of Texas books, Baker was writing a regular column for the local newspaper in Thurber, Texas, inviting readers to laugh and cry with stories from years-gone-by. Texas Stories I like to Tell My Friends brings those stories together for readers all over. This volume focuses on stories that originated in the 1800s, bringing out many details about pioneering, slavery, the Civil War, and forgotten moments in time like the forming of a ghost town, a failed railway strike, the tracking of a horse thief, and more. Alternately startling and enlivening but always interesting, Texas Stories provides a valuable reading experience for anyone interested in the stories of people who came before us.
Download or read book Tips for the Traveling Salesman written by Herbert N. Casson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Download or read book Tales of a Traveling Salesman written by Thomas A. Faxvog and published by Two Harbors Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom's entire career was in technical sales that spanned 39 years of being a traveling salesman. During this time he completed additional technical courses at Chicago University and Clemson University. During his sales career he rejoined the Navy Reserves and completed missions to U.S. Naval Station in the Philippines during the beginning phase of Iraqi Freedom. After this obligation was completed, he became more active with his local VFW, serving as commander, and with other service groups. At the present time the author enjoys big lake fishing and spending time at his Northern Minnesota Cabin with his family and friends. Book jacket.
Download or read book Virgil s Story written by Virgil D. Mochel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the story explains how Virgil's ancestors from Europe all arrived at that small region called Woodland, Indiana. Emphasis is on what was going on in that part of each one's world to cause them to migrate to this country and eventually to that spot in Indiana. Wars, religious intolerance, and decisions by the various kings or queens were the driving forces that caused so many to leave their homelands and look for better conditions. Life on a farm during the Great Depression and World War II is described in some detail. The emotional devastation upon learning of the deaths of two brothers in that war took a heavy toll on the Mochel Family. The second part deals with the many varied experiences of Virgil and Marian as they traveled their life-journey together, up to the present time.
