Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily brought to trial, convicted of "anarchy." He has taken an appeal...
...Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe Due de la Terrace last year dragged her on snowshoes to the Katonah railroad station in time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best of Breed in spite of frost-bitten feet. The last time she told the story...
...being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such a fondness for its owner that Woolworth Donahue brought it back to the U. S. When he told his friends that he fed it on raw ducks, Publisher Warner got the idea of teaching the cheetah to retrieve. After two days the cheetah fetched dead or wounded ducks on land or in the water, delivered...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...
...dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and-such a field, or house, or shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will not be able to protect the Bertaud property after her death. Marlise is still unable...