Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...
...than 30,000 members, but also Vice President of its High Council for Births. With his wife and daughter, M. Boverat stopped in for tea and croissants one afternoon last winter at the hitherto quiet, respectable Restaurant Bagdad. Little did the Boverat family suspect that the Bagdad's proprietor had decided to make a stand against Depression by the drastic step of hiring a fan dancer who had played in some of the hottest cabarets and vaudeville houses from Chicago to Miami...
...major Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes prizes of $148,500 each on the Epsom Derby, seven were won by Americans. Most preposterous winner was a Brooklyn woman named Anna Hyman, wife of the proprietor of a picayune leather company, who has made a practice of investing $20 in every sweepstakes she has heard about, with no success whatever. Informed that Bahram had won, Mrs. Hyman revealed that she had sold a half interest in her ticket for $40,000. Said she: "I'd certainly like to travel on that big ship, Normandie...
...Jimmy Savo is most capable not when he is being beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis in a neglectful free clinic, but when he is up against his old comic difficulty of making a complicated and terrifying piece of machinery work. As the proprietor of a "puffle" works whose employes are on strike, Funnyman Savo becomes entangled in a ten-foot blue print, has first powder and then oil squirted into his surprised face, nearly electrocutes himself before the whole contraption collapses. Audiences found all this a long way from Karl Marx, were appropriately...
...more local, and far more disturbing infringement on the moral atmosphere of Copperthwaite Street, is personified in one Charles Breen. Breen, affectionately termed the Proprietor of Parke and Tilford's by his Dunster House acquaintances, partakes freely of intoxicating potations at periodic intervals. Under the influence of demon rum, he invariably gives vent to his superfluous enthusiasm by standing on Copperthwaite Street at six o'clock in the morning, summoning all the vocal power at his command, and calling out random remarks concerning the intelligence, habits, and ancestry of Dunster men in particular, Harvard men more generally, and all college...