Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penney chose his partners carefully, paying as much attention to the wife as to the man ("a good woman's power to encourage is well nigh unlimited"). Once he found the right partner, he gave him a share of any profits and trusted him completely. By 1924 he was calling himself "the man with a thousand partners." Penney's 50,000 "associates" (employees) still share in the profits after a year's service...
...Look into my eyes," Princess Margaret ordered a startled dancing partner not long ago. "I am looking into them, Ma'am," he stammered. "Well," said Margaret, "you're looking into the most beautiful eyes in England. The Duchess of Kent has the most beautiful nose. The Duchess of Windsor has the most beautiful chin. And I have the most beautiful eyes. Surely," she added, with an impish gleam in her eye, as her flustered partner groped for a suitable answer, "you believe what you read in the papers...
Panic & Proxies. Born to the black-bread fare of Italian immigrants, young Giannini thrived on the urgent challenges of disaster, the quick opportunities of every self-made man. Taken into his stepfather's San Francisco produce business at twelve, A.P. became a partner at 19, half-owner a few years later. He retired from the business at 31 with a $250 monthly income...
...glorify himself and Edward, Boult stops at nothing. He betrays and bullies his gentle wife (Deborah Kerr), who ends up as a maudlin drunkard. He deserts his mistress (Leueen MacGrath), and drives his old friend and partner (Mervyn Johns) to suicide. As the movie ends, both Edward and his wife are dead, but Boult, still obsessed with the pursuit of self-perpetuation, is ready to begin a search for Edward's illegitimate child...
Exalted Ruler. The junior partner of Steptoe & Johnson, a joiner of joiners, was soon president of the Clarksburg Rotary, Exalted Ruler of the Elks, a rising leader of the American Legion...