Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proclaimed, "These, young man, are very, very old." After examining the china, Allen observed diplomatically that "it says 'Made in Germany,' and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that such a marking appeared." Another Parke Bernet diplomat, after examining a ring that its owner believed to be antique amber, said, "I'm sorry, madam, but it's plastic." He gently added: "Early plastic...
...March, the W.F.L. held a draft of N.F.L. players and Toronto picked Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Keating immediately ran a check on the Toronto franchise and learned that it was amply bankrolled by several wealthy Canadians. Bassett himself comes from a sports-minded family-his millionaire father, owner of a successful Toronto TV station, was at one time chairman of both the Toronto entry in the Canadian Football League and the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...Faulkner himself often said--that the life of the man could be found in the work of the mind (but not the reverse) and that the best understanding of Faulkner comes from reading about that small postage stamp of native soil, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, of which he was sole owner and proprietor...
...January of 1920, Boston made the most celebrated sale in the history of baseball when they gave Ruth to the New York Yankees for the then-astronomical sum of $100,000 and a loan of $300,000 to help faltering Red Sox club owner Harry Frazee...
William Alexander Percy was one of those consummate, now long-extinct Southern Gentlemen--he was a poet, a plantation owner, a lawyer and a leading citizen of Greenville, Mississippi. And by the time he wrote his autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee, in 1941, he was something of a living anachronism, baffled and bewildered by the modern world...