Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delicacy. Instead, they set patterns of tough-man acting that have haunted their subsequent careers. Cagney is the cocky bantam hoodlum, swaggering and posturing, with words dropping from the side of his mouth in chunks and gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson, less slavish to the physical, just points his cigar and says "Nyah," fixing opponents with crepe-swathed stares. Then he sends enormous wreaths to their funerals...
After four decades of changing its directors and publishing policies, the Harvard University Press is sure of only two things: a high place in the publishing trade and its local confusion with the Harvard Printing Office. Never the proprietor of actual printing presses, the Press has long been identified by students as the place where posters, exam schedules and the like are made up. "Just once," complains a Press official, "I'd like the subject of my job to come up at a party without being congratulated for the clever way in which we manage to keep track...
Shortchanged. In Miami, three nights after he robbed Mack's Liquor Store of $46, a holdup man returned, pointed a pistol at Proprietor Herman Mack, told him: "I read in the papers where I got $600 ... I came back for the rest," made off with...
...London similar indignities were afoot. A thief entered a jewelry store and announced to the bored proprietor, "This is a held-up." As the merchant calmly pushed the desperado out of the store, he said, "Nonsense, I've got not time to waste with hoodlums...
...American Machine & Foundry Co.'s new automatic pinspotting machine, in operation for the first time on the West Coast. Last week Jewel City totted up the results of its first two weeks with the pinspotters: business was 30% better than it had ever been before. Said Proprietor Hugo Kohn: "Yessir, it looks as though these machines will revolutionize bowling...