start-out

Updated: August 4, 2026

A shrewd, exacting, penny-for-penny and dollar-for-dollar business woman was concealed under the mask of her good-natured face and air of motherly solicitude. Miss Jamison, at the very start-out of her career, was inspired to call her little "snide" boarding-house after the founder of the particular creed professed by the congregation of the neighboring church.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself