Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington newshawks, bending over backward to find polite synonyms for "dictator," discovered that: 1) Dictator Batista has a cigaret holder like Franklin Roosevelt's amber one; 2) unlike the President he takes it out of his mouth when he talks; 3) he likes to sleep until 11 a. m., then brunches, sees visitors, plays squash or tennis; 4) he then works until 1 or 2 a. m., after that he sees movies; 5) he likes newsreels of Mussolini, of which he once saw seven in one night; 7) he says that sometimes he likes what Mussolini does, sometimes...
...National Scholarship holder through his College course, the recipient is on the Dean's list, concentrates in English. He is also chairman of the Lowell House Committee, a member of the executive board of the Student Union, and was associated with the Red Book editorial board...
Struck 1938 Holder...
...alleged that: 1) Ghost Kenny got together with William A. Kaufmann, Author Herr's law partner and holder of 20% of the stock of Legal Publications, Inc.; 2) controlling a combined 60% of the stock, Kenny and Kaufmann thereupon voted themselves $400 a week salaries out of proceeds from selling the book; 3) Kenny, who had been hired principally to do laborious legal research, rewrote the preface to give himself credit for his work, an unheard of action for a ghost...
...Only a Penny," showing that one cent's worth of electricity will toast 26 slices of bread. Last week the $1,300,000,000 utility issued its third-quarter earnings report. Its net income of $3,506,027 was enough to toast 156 slices of bread for the holder of each share of its common stock-precisely 26 slices more than for the same period last year...