Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found the comrade "nurses" ripping the labels off the medicines and reclassifying the bottles according to four sizes and five colors. As for such high-reform," sounding most old government comrades projects as treated them "agrarian as rackets. When a mock trial with agitator witnesses led to a landlord's being beaten to death or shot, the party members div vied the land and farm implements among his neighbors, but picked up any gold or silver, clothing or household goods for themselves...
...went on cursing it energetically for the rest of his life-while remaining a Catholic. He borrowed a title, Baron Corvo, took it to Scotland and began to dine out in great pretension. The canny Scots, however, would not con. Soon he was back on his rent, and the landlord meant business. "They entered the Baron's bedroom," ran an account in the Aberdeen Free Press, "and the Baron was given ten minutes to dress and clear...
...daughter?" he asked his first petitioner, a mother with five children clustered round her. "Pretty good, my general," the woman replied. "I'm out of work and have five children and my landlord is about to throw me out because I'm seven months behind on the rent." And her husband? "He's out of work and can't get a job because he's just out of jail." When the President asked why he had been in jail, the woman began to cry. Perón said: "After all, what...
Under his new dictatorial powers, Mossadegh, himself a wealthy landlord, abolished centuries-old feudal dues and services, and ordered landlords to turn over one-fifth of their rents to the impoverished peasantry. Half of this sum will go to the sharecroppers on each tract. The other half is to be deposited to the credit of local, peasant-run cooperatives which are to be set up in each village to provide low-interest loans, tools, irrigation facilities and drinking water for the peasants. Point Four men on the scene applauded the scheme...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...