Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike's last day was a meatless Friday, but at a little trattoria off the Corso Umberto the following noontime exchange took place between customer and proprietor...
...tripping every bumper were the only ways to rack up free games; but the new devices coming out of Chicago, the pinball capital of the world, contain never fewer than a dozen bumpers, a horde of runways and dropslots, and various moving parts. Harry Saxe, pinball pioneer and proprietor of Harry's Arcade Spa sighs, "Luck is so important in new machines that anyone can run up a creditable score...
...College cannot be accused of clutoring things up at men shops, where one proprietor estimated that nine-tenths of his gift customers were women. Yet another reported a noticable College demand for presents for "pa," though "limited budgets are preventing $50 selections...
Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...
...racing stables in income for five of the past seven years. What Calumet has, besides plenty of capital, is a lot of good horse-sense. All its horses come from the same incubator-1,038 acres of rolling blue-grass just outside Lexington, Ky. Its proprietor is placid Warren Wright, who inherited his millions from Calumet baking powder. His recipe for breeding horses: "Just mix the best with the best and hope for the best...