Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After that, Civrac-en-Medoc became a village divided. The mayor habitually referred to the violin-playing priest as "that low-life fiddler," and the priest called the mayor a pagan. On the priest's side were the pious; ranged against him were the mayor, Policeman Mocriau, the proprietor...
...Cronin, proprietor of Jim's Place, said last night there was no possibility that DeGuglielmo was thinking of his beer machines when he announced the order...
...gone, the officials had lost their best lead, but there are still many secondary sources to follow, though they are made difficult by the conspiracy of silence. In a bistro in Casablanca, three late-staying Moroccans asked for another round of drinks. "Go on, give it to them," the proprietor told his wife. "It's the last drink they'll ever have." Riding home in their car a few minutes later, the Moroccans were shot down by a blast of machine-gun bullets. Names like that of the bistro's proprietor are often spoken of in connection...
Island, one of seven places which claim to be the birthplace of Homer. He left home at the age of 23 to seek his fortune in the U.S. After a number of false starts, he found it as the proprietor of a barbershop and beauty parlor in Pittsburgh, Pa. Three times since luck smiled upon him, Mike had returned to Pyrgi as a heelobowie. In 1926 he dropped in on his birthplace and helped to restore the village church. In 1939 he paid another visit, and left behind in the church tower the biggest and handsomest clock the villagers...
After the finale, Teacher Smith led his pupils onstage. They heard Proprietor Harold Minsky, pleased and professorial, boast: "It was a fast show. Good pace. No milking the acts [i.e., stalling for extra applause]." Teacher Smith hastened to remind his students that 1954 burlesque is merely a joyless corruption of the art of the '10s and '20s when the girls wore tights and such top comedians as Phil Silvers and Fanny Brice actually burlesqued Shakespeare and the opera. True burlesque. Smith declared, is dead...