Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night the cop on the corner explained it all to us. "It's a private company over on Brattle Street that watches over buildings around here. And the young lady must be the owner's wife," he added...
...Museum on condition other members raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (later reduced to $750,000) to care for them. With Mrs. Rockefeller leading, 160 members produced $630,000, including $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. Promising the other $120,000 the Museum found itself the proud owner of a collection of Cezannes equaled only by those in Moscow and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the finest group of Seurat drawings in the U. S. and 59 other important works. In 1932 the Museum moved from the Heckscher Building around to its present quarters on West 53rd...
...will seem to the Legion of Decency, she is up to her old tricks, kissing with her mouth open, listening unabashed to lines like, "Take off your clothes and stay awhile." Spencer Tracy is the cocky tuna fisherman whom she sticks to even though Nick Appopolis, the fish-cannery owner, assaults her virtue with a matrimonial offer and a neckpiece made of well-bleached cat-fur. When her fisherman leaves her to go on the bum, she steals a roll of bills for him from Nick. Sentenced for this, she gets out of prison through a drainpipe, is reunited with...
...Crimson's criticism seems to be the reflection of the rich man's point of view. Of course Harvard is a rich man's college. The editorial, for instance, gave the President no credit for establishing the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to save impoverished home owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest...
These names, and millions more, are for sale by Boyd's City Dispatch, which last week, in the 105th year of its existence, decided to incorporate. Said President Edgar J. Williams, 72, who has been Boyd's owner & manager since 1900, "It's a dangerous thing nowadays not to be incorporated." Boyd's City Dispatch was founded in Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within...