Word: landlordism
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...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...
Communism as the wave of the future. "When I get up early in the morning," said he, "the first thing I see is the sun. It always rises in the east, and it is undeniably red." Landlord Groza formed a left-wing peasants' movement known as the Plowmen's Front. He piled up wartime profits under the German occupation, but he shrewdly calculated the turn of the tide, got himself jailed by the Nazis before the Reds marched in from the east...
...Shao Tang, a young man brought up in the new society all the way, and educated by the Communist Party, nevertheless degenerate to such an extent?" cried one party leader. The writers' conclusion: class origin. Said a party spokesman with obvious relief: "Liu was raised in a rotten landlord family; his mind was inscribed with words like 'Bring honor to your ancestors.' " Liu, decided the party, had become a person "mercenary from head to toe," and-pending repentance-all publishers would refuse Liu's creations from that day forward...