Word: possessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays the first-place winner; the winner of this final series is, for what reason it is difficult to tell, the World's Champion and the possessor of the Stanley...
...Dramatic Club of West Virginia University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...
Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg, following Ibsen, had established its importance in literature. Not often does true genius receive its due while its possessor lives; Ibsen, however, was fortunate enough to be hailed as great during his lifetime, and posterity has continued the applause of his generation...
...resignation of Myron K. Blackmer as Vice President of the Midwest Refining Co. Henry H. Blackmer, his father and Midwest's onetime Board chairman, is a fugitive from justice and the possessor of $763,000 profits of the Continental Trading Co.-money which apparently belongs to the Midwest...