Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lagarto ("The Lizard") was built in 1922. That made her, compared to her rivals last week, a specimen of early Americana but antiquity is not El Lagarto's only distinction. For her first owner, Ed Grimm, who called her Miss Mary, El Lagarto performed miserably in the Gold Cup races of 1923 and 1924. Mr. Reis (pronounced "Rice"), who wanted a fast runabout for his Lake George summer home, bought her in 1925, renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library...
...mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac give evidence that the transfer has done nothing to impair the knack for knife-throwing which was the obsession of their original owner...
...less impressive than the change in the fortunes of Discovery this year has been that of the 22-year-old owner who bought him for $25,000 in 1932, just after the Vanderbilt silks (cerise, white diamonds and white cap; had been registered with The Jockey Club. Properly speaking, the Vanderbilt Stables came into existence in 1934. The autumn before. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt celebrated his coming of age with a party at Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about...
...rich little girl wanted to shoot a dog that had frightened her, persuaded her father to offer its poverty-stricken owner a hundred pounds...
...movies by sticking to one general story but will even copy the same story over & over. As in Grace Moore's preceding picture, One Night of Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion of marrying a Boston socialite...