Word: prospers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months last year as a pulp, Saga is to be resumed as a smooth-paper book, price 25?, containing 96 pages of thrills in story, and picture. Contrary to advance publicity, Lowell Thomas' editorship is purely honorary, a favor to his friend Albert Buranelli (brother of Writer Prosper Buranelli) who will publish Saga. Most of the editorial work is done by Associate Editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, onetime fiction editor of Liberty. Honorary Editor Thomas manages to visit the office briefly about once a week...
...Prosper Ménière decided that such symptoms collectively represented a definite disease of the inner ear caused by infection or degeneration. The French physician could do nothing to cure the disease which, upon his death the following year, his colleagues called Ménière's Disease. Nor could his successors do much until the perfection of brain surgery 20 years ago. Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain. Such an operation, however, resulted unavoidably in total deafness. For this reason most surgeons were reluctant to perform...
Born: at Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13. 1874. Start in life: cowboy. Career: in 1875 his parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker...
Within their long lives, however, neither Francois de Wondol nor Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider has ever let drop a word to indicate that he sees any connection between his business and an eventual ruin of his capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...
...action of the play centers about Prosper, the keeper of an 18th-century night club, a former theatre-director, and now an ardent revolutionist, who entertains his noble patrons with short criminal sketches, in which fact and fiction are indissolubly intertwined. As the news of the fall of the Bastille arrives, all the players throw off their disguises and give vent to their true feelings. The high point of the play is reached in the murder of Duke Emile, bringing to a climax a train of intrigue so typical of the spirit of that...