Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called last week (see p. 21) officials hurried through the Woosung region hustling non-combatants to safety. They found a small hotel peppered with lead from both sides in the bombardment of the Woosung Forts. The vegetable garden adjoining it was pock-marked by shells. Within was the proprietor, a retired oldtime British navy officer named Capt. Frederick Davis who had operated the hotel for many years-the only white civilian remaining in the vicinity. His pet dog had disappeared; he had been living for days on such canned food as he had in the kitchen. Given a chance...
...inclination for natural history," explains Professor William Heckler of Manhattan's 42nd Street Flea Circus, "led me into the business." An old city ordinance led the Professor, the proprietor of the freak show in which he operates, and the impresarios of several neighboring burlesque shows into police court last week. Complainant was the 42nd St. Property Owners and Merchants Association which claimed that its community was rapidly developing into a rowdy midway. Shooting galleries, "men only" movies and pitchmen have brought the block to sad estate...
...Philadelphia") Jack O'Brien, old-time light-heavyweight champion, gymnasium proprietor, was announced as violin soloist at a concert of the New York Schools of Music, Jan. 23, in Manhattan. After his retirement from the ring...
...said Erlanger had feared that his brother would "make trouble"; the lawyer's wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing to her in 1920 had stated that she had been married to Mr. Erlanger; five employes of an Atlantic City hotel; an actress; three waiters; a doorman; the proprietor of a suburban inn; a Pullman porter; a hairdresser; a former valet; various tradesmen; a room clerk in Manhattan's smart Ambassador Hotel...
...wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil tycoon, taken just after Robert Plunkett shot Doheny Jr. dead and killed himself in 1929. Infuriated, Hugh Plunkett tore the prints from the wall, had Proprietor Joe Gotch and five associates arrested. The charge: libeling the memory of the dead...