Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limelight held the lead, seemed likely to win his nth race of the season. Then up out of the mud pounded a very dark horse indeed, Raymond, a starter at 33-to-1. Raymond's jockey was a scrawny little South African named George Nicholl. Raymond's owner was the great South African diamond tycoon. Sir Abe Bailey. Raymond finished an easy winner. His Majesty's Limelight was not even in the money. "The King loses!" cried sympathetic spectators. King George dropped his glasses in his lap. Queen Mary in a thick purple coat patted his hand...
...declaration of War is signaled by a passing liner. A drag-out fight has already flared between the ranting bully of a captain (Colin Clive) and his admirable first mate (John Buckler). Criminally stupid or incredibly irresponsible, the cause of the fight is the captain's wife, the owner's daughter (Rose Hobart), whom the mate once hoped to marry. The two biggest racial groups in the crew are British and German, next biggest Scandinavians and "greasers." Audiences were ready to expect anything at the first act curtain. They saw the captain and mate patch up their quarrel...
...were not already the owner of a typewriter of a famous brand, I would buy a Remington, just to show Remington Rand Inc. my appreciation for their sponsorship of the "March of TIME...
Week before, Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson had "cracked down" on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, a market owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that...
Through the years when he was busily building his fortune and reputation, "Tom" Sopwith kept his hand in at yachting. Five years ago, aged 40, he popped up as owner of Mouette which he sailed himself with astonishing skill. Two years ago he bought Shamrock V, Lipton's last challenge sloop, won season's honors with her against the King's cutter Britannia, 24 Hags...