| Cold-hearted door-to-door salesmen are preying on the elderly and conning them into buying over-priced funerals. |
| The salesmen have been telling producers many half-truths and some outright deceptions. |
| Other salesmen called to sell door to door, like the linen man, who brought a van full of household linen. |
| This is not the brave new world we were sold, like so much soft soap, by untold motion picture, pulp novel, and television traveling salesmen. |
| Cotton was the key to prosperity, but manufacturers, merchants, salesmen, dyers and finishers all had business there, too. |
| The cooking equivalent was the Costard, which gave rise to the term costermonger, first applied to apple salesmen. |
