Word: proprietresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a long and not too honorable history behind Shepherd Hall. Purchased in 1918 from a boarding house proprietress, it has become the home of the Naval Science Department, and the enforced repository for twenty-five dropped Freshmen. A veritable fire-trap, a prey to the first strong wind that blows, the wooden edifice of Shepherd is in shameful contrast to a group of buildings which includes Dunster, Lowell, and Eliot Houses. The University has recognized these facts for years, yet has pursued only a patch-work policy, just effective enough to hush condemnation proceedings...
Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures...
From such blissful ruminations he traveled on to Vienna where he arrived ''too late." Frau Sacher, proprietress of the city's most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that the city was passee. Budapest, with its slightly Oriental flavor he liked better, though he was shocked, on going to hear the gypsy music, to hear "Donna e Mobile" instead. "It was not necessary to travel the far way from Pennsylvania to Hungary to learn that donne were mobile. They...
...Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame as great educators of New York's best daughters. Last week the Spence trustees announced their next move. To run the new Spence plant and continue the proud Spence tradition they had called upon Miss Valentine Laura Chandor, able proprietress of the foremost remaining small school for New York fashionables...
...cabaret, and the cabaret presupposes a girl who wants to keep straight or go straight. All these elements are supplied by the studio. Miss Twelvetrees is a stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught...