Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most notorious of the old-time dives were the Billy Goat, named for its foul smell; the Bull Run, where the pretty waiter girls entertained privately for 25? to $1 ; the Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were...
Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...
Near the first tee on the deceptively innocuous-looking course at Hoylake, England, stands a ramshackle hotel where chickens sometimes wander in the corridors. Its proprietor is famed John Ball, who won the British Amateur Golf Championship eight times in 24 years from 1888 to 1912 and played in it every year till this one. No one nowadays is likely to duplicate John Ball's extraordinary record. Unlike its equivalent in the U. S., the British Amateur is played without qualifying rounds. A golfer needs to be exceedingly lucky as well as able to reach, through a long succession...
...unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife of Herbert Hoover's reformer friend who disappeared with amnesia for some weeks last year (TIME, Sept. 19 et Seq.) She hastened to Winter Park to see that her nephew, Professor Theodore Dreier, was not booted out with the others...
...Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial for falsification of bank accounts had electrified the Press. Few hours later the reporter called at the Inn, chatted with the proprietor, suggested to him that his feeble old guest was Harriman. To see for himself, the proprietor went upstairs, found "Mr. Thomas" in bed, and got nothing but denials from the old gentleman. While they were talking, a loud knock announced the arrival of Inspector King of the Nassau County police...