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...been to court on assault and battery charges brought by his landlord in Dorchester and has several altercations which led to similar complaints from neighbors. One of these felt that this belligerence affected his marital life, noting that "his second wife used to stay over with him a couple of nights a week and then have to go home...
...hero is a sharecropper's son named Max Harper, a simple, violent, yet good-hearted fellow with a clubfoot. He falls in love with the landlord's daughter and develops an understandable hatred for her mean, spoiled brother. The paternalistic but unscrupulous landlord persuades young Harper to sign lying papers in order to get his clubfoot straightened at an insurance company's expense. Healed, Harper becomes a combat infantryman in World War II. He returns to find his cabin burned down, his girl married, and the landlord's wicked son in charge of the farm. When...
Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney...
...ripped out, 3) a hand-carved piano leg was tooth-carved, 4) all doors had to be rehung. Wailed Mrs. Kaiser: "[Amidst] the debris, dirt, filth and desecration . . . only the ceilings were intact." Couple of days later, a long-postponed suit, brought against ex-Tenant Lanza by another Hollywood landlord asking $17,000 for Lanzarations wrought on another $200,000 mansion, came up for trial, was again put off (so that lawyers could dicker over a cash settlement...
...government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...