Word: landlordism
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...Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified one aspiring city councilman as "an admitted tax cheat," another as "Front man for a slum landlord." Monuments to the Press's love for the city dot the landscape: a handsome lakefront development, an expanded public hall, new low-cost apartment houses built over slums, a new community college. But Seltzer and the Press are too busy to pause and admire their handiwork. The paper throws parties...
...bring pressure on owners of the unsound lodgings the committee advocated state legislation authorizing the courts to designate the city as rent receiver in-place of any landlord who falls to comply with the housing code. New York recently enacted such a rent law, considering it the surest way to force compliance with the code...
...Registry is satisfied that a landlord does practice discrimination or is unethical in some other way, the landlord's name is permanently removed from the University's lists...
...strong in young men and women between the ages of 16 and 21. In all human history neither legal nor religious authority has been successful in stopping late adolescents from using their genltalla, either naturally or unnaturally as the case may be. If the latter, he speaks as a landlord rather than a collegiate official with wisdom and insight into the conduct of young men and women. In our society the bedroom is the normal place for such relations to occur. Surely, the Dean would not put himself in the uneasy position of sanctioning sexual intercourse between undergraduates in automobiles...
...past and herself in a cold but otherwise fairly comfortable room. Her jerky gestures--especially her habit of pulling her sweater around her defensively--were convincing. But her rheumatism and cracking voice appeared and disappeared with a rapidity which would astound modern science. Generally amusing as the pathetic landlord Mr. Kidd, Elliot Cohen occasionally descended to unnecessary bathos...