Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev based his opera on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th Century comedy: a grandee's daughter, facing parental opposition to her marriage, slyly marries off her duenna to the parental choice (a rich fish merchant...
House at Hell Gate. As head of the city's government, he lives at Gracie Mansion, a fine, 15-room Colonial house built in 1799 by one of the city's early merchant princes, a Scot named Archibald Gracie. Like many another New Yorker, O'Dwyer loves the house. It sits amid sweeping lawns just above the East River Drive near Hell Gate, a spot which General George Washington once fortified against the British. He is served by a maid, a cook, a gardener, a police chauffeur and a butler with an Irish brogue and a gift...
...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...
...West Point-born manufacturer of the French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
...Securities Exchange Act. He voted for the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the NorrIS-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act; but from 1941 he has supported every important bill designed to balance the rights and duties of labor. In 1941, he voted against extending conscription and arming merchant ships, thereafter led the Republican minority in support of all war-winning measures. He voted for Bretton Woods, the United Nations. In 22 years in Congress he has had his name on no important bill...