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...proprietor in Manhattan sells Louis XV vases for $1,000, crystal chandeliers for $300 a pair and bronze sculptures for $1,200 apiece; another offers homemade relishes and jams, chi na eggs, wooden jigsaw puzzles and stuffed animals. Both are florists. The wide variety of their merchandise illustrates how the nation's 22,000 retail florists are branching out. Last week the 11,600-member Florist Telegraph Delivery Association (which is changing its name to Florist Transworld Delivery to give itself a more international image) voted at its convention in San Francisco to permit its members to sell...
...mule's lip from the ear down and to put in a few more things that would fill up, like fried eggs. I did the best I could to get on the outside of all of it. Asked what I owed them. Said $2.50. Called the proprietor. He come in with a collar so high he had to set down quick or it would have cut his ears off. I told him that down in Texas I could get all I could eat for 250, and as long as the court knows herself I'd eat somewhere else...
...President David Edward Skinner. Five-day clinics for couples who want to perfect their mixed doubles game are held eight months a year, and the couples are expected to play tennis five hours a day. "We compensate by giving them breakfast in bed, a sauna bath and a massage," Proprietor John Gardiner says...
...Jury of Peers. In the Los Angeles area, California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had no better luck in trying to control the situation by threatening to revoke licenses. Haled before the board, Whitey Locker, proprietor of Santa Monica's The Ball, protested that his club was patronized by some of the town's leading citizens: "How, then, can you say it runs counter to the community's sense of decency...
...Escargot (which serves a Breton specialty, homard à l'Armoricain, for $5) through the West Side's Café des Sports, where for $1.80 a customer can demolish a head of lamb, drink two glasses of extraordinary vin ordinaire, and talk soccer with Proprietor Lucien Lozach, a former goalkeeper himself, who is keener on scores than on scullery...