Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...
...Manhattan, a customs inspector bent over a trunk. A bottle of Irish whiskey had broken in it, rousing his suspicions. He took four bottles which had not broken and was about to clear the trunk and its owner, one D. Fish of London, when from a bundle of laundry tumbled unexpectedly several little books of paper slips. They were lottery tickets. Further search of Mr. Fish's baggage revealed a total of 1,000,000 tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. Convinced that the U. S. would be a fertile market after...
...Miss Belle Baruch, dark, slender eldest daughter of Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch: master of hounds of the Georgetown, S. C. Hunt, sailor and?like her sister Renee?an expert rifle shot, owner of a big racing and hunting stable at Pau, France; on her famed Arab jumper, Souriante III: the President's Cup at the Paris Horse Show from 119 contestants, most of them French cavalry officers or professional riders; for the second year in succession...
...continues its uneven but earnest way, it develops that someone with a cold hand has been perpetrating the various assaults and murders, someone, most likely, in the police department, for the constabulary of this mythical municipality is evidently a gang of thoroughgoing rogues. The question is: who is the owner of the cold, paralyzed hand...
...young Bernard Lotus drank deep of stimulants, then climbed with his girl, into his automobile. During the next few moments he: drove over the curb and took the porch off a house, crumpling his fenders; raced a half block to a garage, drove in, offered to fight the garage-owner; chased his girl, who had then breathlessly departed, but failed to catch her; climbed Dack in his car, drove out of the garage and, speedily, into a parked car owned by one Fred Stoetzer; offered to fight about 50 men who gathered around the accident; offered to fight Stoetzer, followed...