Word: duplex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, ex-Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had a distressing set-to with his landlady. He sued to break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner...
...character failed to come across on the air, it might have been partly because Milton is almost never at home. When he is, home is a $4,000-a-year duplex in Manhattan's fashionable East 80s, bric-a-brackish with so much glass in tables and on walls that Milt meets himself every time he turns around...
Today Ruark keeps his own hours, writes his stuff in his Manhattan duplex, tries it out on his wife and a secretary. He is pleased when people compare him to ex-Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, thinks "Pegler at his best is the best technical writer I ever read." But Ruark does not aim to get stuck to any tar-baby, like labor-baiting, Roosevelt-hating...
...Mother's little angel seems to turn to demon overnight. For Six, life is duplex. He seesaws between yes & no, love & hate, laughter & tears, chocolate & vanilla. A tough first-grade teacher who insists on his learning the three Rs may give Six a stomachache; he would rather play games. This little extravert loves praise, can't stand criticism, frequently confuses "thine" with "mine...
...first to find their way to Picasso's huge, messy duplex studio at No. 7 rue des Grands Augustins were two cherubic-looking 9th Air Force sergeants. French phrase books clutched in their hands, Gerland Gildner and Eugene van Sant clattered in with a musette bag full of gifts. They dumped their presents happily onto a canvas which lay on the table - a Paris street scene which would probably later sell for 150,000 francs...