Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casals Festival scheduled as a yearly event in Puerto Rico, it seems unlikely that the master will ever again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg-les-Bains. Casals will...
...people of Prades are unlikely to forget the most distinguished of their adopted sons wherever he may be. Casals' former landlord has not yet removed from the walls of the cottage its widely famed label-"El Cant dels Ocells" (in Catalan, The Song of the Birds). It is the name of the popular folk air with which Cellist Casals, playing alone, will end this year's festival just as he ended all the others...
...diabetes, Landlord Worthing was taken to a hospital, told that one of his legs must be amputated. As he lay waiting for the operation, he looked back over a life that had led from college to a job as signal design engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, then to real estate dealings in white-tenanted property, and finally, after a severe Depression loss, into Negro rentals. Then Evan Edward Worthing called his lawyer to the hospital, explained the terms of a will he wanted drawn. Eleven months later, in December 1951. he died. In his principal bequest, he gave...
...title story, the Old Man of the Sea is played by an extraordinarily antic marriage broker who enmeshes a young rabbinical student as thoroughly as Susskind did Fidelman. The Mourners tells of a gross landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive...
...facts are that the Agency Corporation rents office space in a commercial building at 4 Holyoke Street, on which taxes are paid by the landlord. The Agency Corporation has a separate status, as a private, non-profit charitable corporation, under the laws of Massachusetts, apart from the University. Harvard University has no legal or financial responsibility for the Agency Corporation...