Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pirates reach her the Kin Lung is wallowing in a ferment of plots, counterplots, scandals and frustrations. Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded...
...born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner's funeral. Aberrations in the behavior of animals, sexual and otherwise, are to be dreaded. If dogs mate indoors, or with pigs...
Died. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 55, heir to Standard Oil millions, owner of the "world's largest private swimming pool," thrice-married socialite; after long illness; in Southampton...
...could explain why it had closed, least of all its employes. Finally on complaint of some annoyed customers who wanted their money, French officials closed it tighter than ever by sealing the vaults. Apparently the only person who could solve the mystery was the bank's founder, principal owner and undisputed boss, Bertrand Coles Neidecker, a U. S. citizen...
Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...