Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toledo Federal Court last week the pot's objection to being called black by the kettle was denied. Nan Britton, unmarried mother of a 12-year-old girl who she says is the offspring of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding, was suing Charles Augustus Klunk, hotel proprietor of Marion, Ohio and friend of the 29th President, for selling a book called The Answer to "The President's Daughter" (TIME, Nov. 9). The Answer described Miss Britton as a "degenerate," gave the lie to her account of extra-mari- tal adventures with President Harding set down...
...Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding's good name, denied that the President was biologically able to achieve paternity, depicted Miss Britton as an unscrupulous impostor with a bad character. Round-faced, smiling Charles Augustus Klunk, 53, old Harding friend, proprietor of the Marion (Ohio) Hotel, put Author de Barthe's book on sale at the newsstand of his musty old American-plan hostelry. Miss Britton filed a $50,000 suit against him on the ground that his distribution of The Answer libeled...
...feeds her, befriends her, falls in love with her. When her uncle comes to take her back, she runs away, gets on a carnival train, joins the show. By the time she sees Rodney (Clark Gable) again, she has been forced into a compromising situation with the carnival proprietor. Misunderstandings occur, but Susan Lenox is pretty enough to get along. She becomes mistress to a rich politician, has a friend find Rodney and bring him to dinner one night so she can humiliate him. When he leaves, she finds she has humiliated herself instead, goes off to find him. What...
...temporal unity without making it seem tricky by overemphasis. Clive Brook, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins give well-toned performances. Miriam Hopkins has two torch or porch songs, sings them with the right professional air. Good shot: Clive Brook, preoccupied by his troubles, saying good night to a saloon proprietor. Bad shot: Kay Francis deciding to take what she calls "the thoroughbred...
...went to the U. S. at 15 seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop lighted at night, distributed handbills. Once in Glasgow he stopped traffic by having a sleek pig paraded through the streets bearing signs on its sides, "I am going to Lipton...