Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of this is to be national in scope but it is the New England beginning which is shown us here. It is sturdy, realistic, at times decorative, but it is always purposeful. The figureheads usually illustrate the name of the ship, such as the "Abraham Lincoln," or an owner or ship's officer. In any case he was shown complete, from ruffled shirt to whiskers. Again, a stubby little mariner sighting with his sextant advertises the shop of an instrument maker; a "Bell in Hand" proclaims a famous Boston tavern. Thus they all had clarity. And as they were...
...Buffalo, N. Y. last fortnight Frederick L. Schoeptlin's neighbors complained to police of his Doberman pinscher's night-time barking. A judge threatened a $100 fine if the offense were repeated. Owner Schoeptlin took his dog to a veterinarian, had it debarked by a simple nicking of its vocal chords. Outraged were zoophiles by this deprivation of the dog's chief emotional outlet. Last week Buffalo's indignant S. P. C. A. concluded after careful study that the operation was not illegal, launched a campaign for a State law forbidding...
...surrealist is Berney, owner of Berney's Restaurant, Jacksonville, Fla., but a wide-awake, up-and-coming restaurateur, who carries out a green motif from A to Z, scattering Irish shamrocks about his establishment with finesse seldom equaled by a Jew. Dressed completely in green day and night, he will give to any woman dressed entirely in green the choice of his menu, gratis...
...less ambitious feat of imagination, Playwright Anderson has given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft...
...half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...