Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World's three-cushion billiard champion ten times, Layton's newspaper name is still "the Sedalia carpenter." In addition to carpentering, he has been a farmer, professional wrestler and baseball player, manager of a string of prizefighters, proprietor of a summer camp, trapshooting champion of Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota...
...heart-to-heart with every small businessman in the land. The Stock Exchange president was sure that he had a case which could win countless little fellows over to his side - the man with the small tool factory in Indianapolis, the owner of a little cannery in California, the proprietor of Grand Rapids' biggest department store. Each of these little corporations had stock which was unlisted on any exchange. The Exchange Bill, as Mr. Whitney wanted to tell each small businessman, made this stock ineligible as collateral for loans either at banks or brokerage offices. The local corporation might...
...before the Texas vote, NRA revoked its first Blue Eagle in a case involving child labor. Victim was neither a shrimp cannery operator nor a sugar beet harvester, both notorious pre-NRA child-sweaters, but one Moss P. Lugena, 53, proprietor of the Lugena Family Laundry...
Frank is a young bum who has done time for vagrancy and assault but works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek...
...fourteenth, Anna is ordered by the proprietor of a "Dancing" to depart with her flowers; "she does not like to be kissed by drunk and very very rich patrons, well she shall leave." Slightly annoyed, Anna meets her neighbor Jean, a taxi driver, and tells him her woes. Anna and Jean appear to be fond of one another; they quarrel; they settle their petty grievances in a doorway. The rain that had scattered the jubilant throng stops. Life is indeed pleasant. But there is a harlotish-looking friend of Jean who drops into his room and insists on staying...