Word: butcher
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Mercuès' aged priest explained to a foreign guest: "It's the most important wedding of the season. Her father's the richest man hereabouts. You see, she's the butcher's daughter...
...Heard Nothin1 Yet." The four Warner boys-Harry, Jack, Abe and Sam (now dead)-were sons of a Polish immigrant who became an Ohio butcher. About 1905 the brothers got hold of a projection machine and began to pick up a few dollars exhibiting The Great Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named...
What it seemed to boil down to was fear of what the landlord, the butcher, the baker-the other fellow-was going to do. Maybe everybody would now try to make a killing. And then again, maybe he wouldn't. The U.S. people, at bottom, have a great deal of common sense. Now they would be called upon...
...Dick the Butcher: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers...
...Peru, housewives were being turned away from empty-shelved butcher and bakery shops; if the Government acceded to Hoover's request for a 40% cut in local food consumption, it might well write its own downfall. By the time Hoover got to Santiago, he announced flatly that he expected no help from Chile...