Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery yesterday, the suspicion that Colonel Apted had more than met his match flashed through the undergraduate body. A parking tag, of the variety that roads "This vehicle is parked in violation of the University rules. If not removed immediately it will be towed away and stored at the owner's expense. Please see Colonel Apted in Lehman Hall at once," was found attached to the steamroller now rusting above Kirkland House...
...Today's Moley, "I asked him whether it [Mexico] could not be described as a republic, in which authority is exercised by government through the will of the people and in which government, in its relation to the economic system, is a regulating force rather than a paternalistic owner, directing and partially controlling capitalistic enterprise. He agreed with this interpretation...
Nowhere else does a motorist, on finding or losing, say, a glove or a side curtain, expect that it will return to its owner through the smooth clearing channels of organized motoring. Before buying a used car the British motorist has it "expertized" by his club, knows what he is buying. Last week nobody knew better than Major Hore-Belisha that his antics as Minister of Transport are merely a smart flash in the political pan. They may help to blow him far, even perhaps-eventually-to the Prime Ministry...
...threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
Noble indeed is the owner of Neunkirchen's vast ironworks, Countess Sierstorpü. Said she on a visit to London fortnight ago: "The women of the Saar adore Hitler; he is so sweet, so gentle, so kind! All true German women adore him. I once took 60 women to meet him and they wept unashamedly in their emotion. Three things make the Realmleader adorable to the German woman. First, his sublime kindness. Second, his intense patriotism. Third, his standard of truthfulness and sincerity. Ach, you should see his eyes! You should look into them. Truth and sincerity shine...