Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumblings were heard first from Eliot House and the Law School, where green-eyeshaded sharps are went to congregate of a Wednesday eve for a session of poker. The reliable Jersey House, traditional entrepreneur of these lightfingered scholars, reports a sharp decline in trade since Police Chief John R. King's men moved...
...would I be able to care for the child?" she asked; "I sleep every night in a railroad station." A 17-year-old Munich boy killed his mother because she would not give him money for the movies; for two weeks he slept beside the corpse. A Berlin entrepreneur rented coffins for burials at 40 marks for five hours...
...gave us an enlarged industrial machine, great pent-up demand in the form of cold cash, but no new goods in the store. Living tastes and standards rose as many came to appreciate steak and an extra suit. With peace and reconversion, farmer, worker, and entrepreneur cemented their war-won gains of higher wages and profits, but the war-forged incentive to work hard and long naturally but unhappily vanished. The pot of gold seemed within easy reach...
...Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...nice thing about New England weather," said 'Poonprexy Clemens R. Woop ocC yesterday, "Is that it might rain on Thursday." With a nervous glance at sunny skies overhead, the Dutch Tile entrepreneur told newsmen that his pawky band of funnymen were holding daily prayers for a deluge which might eliminate the 23-2 pasting by the CRIMSON's diamond forces, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon...