Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Boston boos were louder than the Hollywood boos, no one could determine. But the disgruntled racing fans of New England, after finally settling down to comparative calm, saw one of the greatest races of the year. War Admiral, for whom Owner Samuel Riddle refused on offer of $250,000* last month, was made a 2-to-5 favorite (in spite of a muddy track and top weight of 130 lb.) after Seabiscuit was scratched. Leaving the post, the four-year-old Riddle colt was not in front as is his custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated...
Pronounced mee-now and so named by Owner Hal Price Headley after his little daughter, whose impatience at his kissing his wife first on entering the house caused her to habitually stamp and squeal...
...futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
Born in 1809, Fanny Kemble was the last of the celebrated, exceedingly proud, theatrical "Kemble dynasty," the most famous of whom was Mrs. Siddons. The proudest, John Philip, whom Byron called "supernatural," sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy...
...Clifford E. Clinton, boyish owner of the "World's Largest Cafeteria" in downtown Los Angeles, customers brought so many tales of civic vice and dishonesty that last year he set up shop as a political reformer. With a few aroused sympathizers he hired a hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur Brigham Rose. Lawyer Rose hired an equally hard-boiled private investigator, Harry Raymond, onetime Los Angeles patrolman and later Police Chief of San Diego. By last week, Clifford Clinton and his cafeteria reform party had managed to stir up the biggest Los Angeles political stench in a decade...