Word: entrepreneur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cahaly's--whose cluttered window stands warmly at the end of an almost unbroken row on noon-lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...
...rate entrepreneur, dealing in used clothing, second-hand furniture, and dog-eared foreign manuscripts, was heard from behind his encased cash box: My business is raised. To get the soap off a then windows it mean washing 'em, and who come into Harry's Equity Shoppe if it's got clean windows...
...remembers his start in the business as modest enough. He and a classmate, Harry G. Olkin '34, invested all their capital in four bicycles and set themselves up in Brooke Hall, where J. P. Morgan, another great entrepreneur, used to live. A gasoline station opposite the Freshman Union, soon displaced him, and he moved into his present quarters...
Billy Rose is a fat little entrepreneur with a beautiful wife who never went to college. Yesterday Billy Rose made a show biz generalization: not only did his wife never go to college, but "with very few exceptions beautiful girls don't go to college." Just as nice as that...
...Piece of Lace. New York discovered Danny Kaye the same night he discovered himself. A song written by Sylvia was the catalyst. Called Stanislavsky, it kidded the great entrepreneur of the Moscow Art Theater, whose "method," according to Sylvia's lyric, consisted of teaching drama students...