traveling salesman

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His father, Charles Whittaker, was a traveling salesman for a maker of burglar alarms and bank vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Rowlands and Cassavetes teamed up for the first time in 1955’s “Time for Love,” she playing a humble small-town girl, he a traveling salesman who sweeps her off her feet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

Set in the future — which looks like a mashup of “The Jetsons” and “Pleasantville,” Crudup plays Jack, a traveling salesman of lunar timeshares.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

In 1828, a German traveling salesman and falconer named Johann Spieker died in Lower Saxony, probably by drowning.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

It was late afternoon, and the driver of the car, a middle-aged traveling salesman who shall here be known as Mr. Bell, was tired.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote