Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...green bags, according to Apted. At the present time, the office is holding seven pairs of spectacles for possible claimants, and two and one-half pairs of gloves. Second-hand books are a constant source of trouble. Frequently, the name inscribed in the book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim a lost book, caught sight of another one, which...
Wags were quick to point out that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...
...pointing two rabbits. Two days later a young pointer named Dr. Blue Willing caused a sensation by getting lost for an hour and a half, after starting his heat with a brilliant find. For the first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white...
...refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus to return the bow to its owner and even to promise to take him home to Greece. His kindness almost breaks down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend Heracles appears as deus ex machine to bid Philoctetes go to Troy as the command of the gods. So Sophocles satisfied...
...First was the late James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, son of a San Francisco livery-stable owner. First "Young Corbett" was George Green of San Francisco who thrashed Mysterious Billy Smith for the welterweight championship in 1897. "Terrible Terry" McGovern lost his featherweight championship to the second "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell...