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...also opened a mirror-house at No. 123 W. 15th Street, Manhattan, whose buxom proprietress used to tell wondering neighbors that she rented the place because "its number could be easily remembered by her gentlemen friends...
...elder). He lives in Manhattan's Alden Hotel, does his work out of town, at West Point. He has applied for U.S. citizenship; has a draft number. In his pocket he carries a crystal rosary, wrapped in a lace handkerchief. It was given to him by the proprietress of a Nancy brothel who hid him from the Germans for three days...
...Berlin's swank West End shopping section, the proprietress of a bakery whose husband is at the front celebrated by giving away all her bread and cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread...
Year ago Bubble-dancer Rand told a Broadway columnist she planned to retire as a rich old maid of 60, live on her annuities. This year she launched her Dnude Ranch at San Francisco's Fair-this time as proprietress, while other young women did the physical labor. By Sept. 30 she had netted $32,433. Meanwhile, business looked so good that she opened a second show, Gay Paree...
...house, a volley of answering pistol shots flying out of the house, were the projectiles, fired last February, which last fortnight blew the lid off the city government of Champaign, Ill. Indicted for the murder of Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth and four city commissioners...