Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Erin O'Brien-Moore's grandfather was part owner of the Galveston News and the Dallas News. Her brother is an associate professor of Latin & Greek at Yale. Her father was a newspaper reporter. When abroad, Erin O'Brien-Moore contemplated visiting his birthplace in Ireland, tossed a coin, went to Paris with friends instead. She owns no pets except a ten-year-old alley cat, dislikes all sports except swimming, admires Al Smith. She cried with dismay when she saw her cinema tests. Her next picture will be Dangerous Corner...
...first issue of The Journalist reported newspaper doings in a manner which would make the white hair of Editor & Publisher's present owner stand on end. Excerpts...
...generally goes credit for brilliant designs and breath-taking solutions; to Mr. Holabird, praise for mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from the Saddle & Cycle Club, going to parties. He was promoter and part-owner last year of the Century of Progress' most popular concession, the Streets of Paris. Tall, thin, gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses to exhibit his trophies on the walls of the Holabird & Root office at 333 North Michigan...
...were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course...
Some of Author Faulkner's puns are better than others. Random sample: a horse which its owner could no longer afford to keep in the stall to which it was accustomed. In the wise-crackling dialog which makes up 90% of the book, even the heavy hero is allowed to say. when his mistress asks him if theirs was a case of love at first sight: "No, I had to look twice to believe my eyes...