Word: landlordism
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Newsmen found that Chicago, long notorious for its slums, deserves its notoriety. As many as 1,000 people are crowded into buildings intended for 200. One landlord's monthly income from an apartment, which he had split up into living quarters for three families, had quintupled since 1942. On file with the city housing commission were 10,000 complaints about rats, bugs and other unhealthy conditions which "the city is doing nothing about"; 57 rat-bite cases were treated in the last six months alone. In rare cases where landlords were haled into court, three out of five...
Within the rather contrived framework of a sideshow stand, where the customers try to knock down figures of assorted sins, the picture illustrates each transgression in turn. Avarice and Anger are embodied in a vignette about a greedy landlord, his wife and a poor tenant. Sloth tells how St. Peter dispatches a female emissary from heaven to slow down the feverish life on earth. In Lust, an adolescent girl is disillusioned when her mother has an affair with a roving artist. All three episodes are commonplace in writing and direction...
...ancient mansion on the Rhine, overlooking both the river and the four tracks of the main rail line under his bedroom window. The chief disadvantage was the lack of a private entrance. The house was quiet when the lease had been signed, and Lubar assumed that only the landlord and his wife lived on the top floor. But when he moved in, the house suddenly teemed with the landlord's six children, running up & down the stairs and through the apartment vestibule. Because of the bleakness of the housing situation, he decided to suffer such inconveniences in Spartan silence...
...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...