Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Pirandello is known here and abroad for the unique informality of his drama technique. Aged 61, he has written prolifically plays, poetry, short stories, though for 30 years he taught in the Rome Normal College for Women. His father was proprietor of just such a Sicilian sulphur mine as Character Salvo...
...Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back to the country. Members of the cast have voices which register well. The detective (Robert Elliott...
...Should anything untoward happen to William Randolph Hearst, the staffs of the various Hearst papers would be running about like ants, for their morgues contain no biography of their owner. The proprietor has given orders that no biography of himself be prepared...
...handle their delegates at Houston, the Democrats have engaged George L. ("Tex") Rickard, prizefight promoter, proprietor of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...
...obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory, but one is left with the thought that, after all, Sherwood Anderson is hopelessly and rather endearingly American...