Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last U. S. jazz band to play in London?three and a half years ago?was the relatively restrained Brooke Johns Orchestra. Dauntlessly, however, "Conductor Abie" sailed from Manhattan. The Ministry of Labor agreed that "Abie's Own" may perform at a London night club, on condition that the proprietor hire an equal number of authentic British musicians...
Paraguay is among the world's most backward lands. Her yearly exports and imports approximately balance at the trifling figure of $14,000,000. Rivers are the only important highways. The sole famed landed proprietor is Tex Rickard...
...London famed H. Gordon Selfridge, rich U. S. proprietor of England's first and greatest department store, said, addressing London's Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
First Dog. Mrs. Florence B. Ilch of Red Bank, N. J., made an announcement. She, proprietor of the Bellhaven Collie Kennels, had crated and shipped to Mrs. Hoover, on the day before election, a young celebrity named, with the fanciness peculiar to kennels and stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn...
...When I put up that sign," explained Proprietor Giuseppe Maduro, "my business doubled, and so I will never change...