Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before. He was not going to die. There would be a priest if he was going to die." The Killers is about two men who go into a restaurant to shoot Ole Anderson. First they put the cook and the waiter in the kitchen. Then they talk to the proprietor and wait for Ole Anderson to come in. At five minutes to seven they decide he is not coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.' 'There...
...dear general." Another radio the Mayor sent was to U. S. newsgatherers who asked him if he had indeed insisted upon the ejection of two Negroes from a night place in Rome, as reported by Il Progresso (Manhattan daily). "Silly report!" replied the Mayor. In Rome, one Anton Bragaglia, proprietor of the night place, explained: "Mayor Walker was my distinguished guest that evening, I asked the Brazilians in question not to dance. They were very indignant and explained they were not Negroes but Creoles, and, moreover, French citizens, although Brazilian born, and artists. They were members of a French troupe...
...William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary war was fought by twelve Colonies and one Province...
They listened to Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the London Daily Telegraph, outlining the purpose of the first international conference of press experts...
...great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick, Ga. To the merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone to Rio de Janeiro, 4,600 miles, farther than any man had flown without touching...