“The room was black as an honest politician’s prospects.”
Dashiell Hammett, The Big Knockover (1924).
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A daily calendar of the world's oldest professions
About Me
- Richard Voorhees
- Voorhees' unabridged dictionary of "The World's Oldest Professions" is available on Amazon and at http://www.rgvoorhees.com. Follow him on Twitter @richvoorhees.
Blog Archive
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May
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- The Latin Master's Use of the Rod
- An Honest Politician's Prospects
- A Knight of the Pestle
- Women Divers
- Feather Golf Ball Maker
- Dickens on Watchmakers
- Weaver and the Ideal Good
- Tacitus on Profligate Generals
- Housebreakers
- Erasmus on the Unmasking of Actors
- Marooner
- Mandarin
- The Loss of a Hand for False Moneyers
- Twain on Salaried Employees
- Popcorn Man
- Truckmen and that inevitable, overhanging, devasta...
- Zealous Zealators
- The Abbess and the Dean
- The Chapman Always Grinds Twice
- Miles on Musicians
- The Most Detestable of All Employments
- Now Rome is Rome, not just a huge bazaar
- To Rise in the World He Carried a Hod
- Day Labourers
- A Jobber Who Sniffed the Coming Storm
- The Mississippi Pilot
- First Workers' Revolt based on Specific Claims
- Envoys
- The Lustre of the Dancers' Silken Robes
- Burroughs on Obsolete Unthinkable Trades
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