Word: landlordism
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...still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood: his father wasn't around, and his mother washed dishes and scrubbed floors to support him and his sister and brother, who is disabled. His mother never learned to read, and they moved 18 times in 18 years. Once a landlord took the windows out of their frames when his mother didn't pay the rent. "I think in a certain sense you do what you were born to do," he says. "And maybe, maybe, I was born to write. But I was also born poor...
...jolted me out of my comfortable world with what can only be described as an act of patent, petty meanness. I sure hope that there were bona fide economic motives behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike to pay his landlord, not his dealer). But from my point of view, it felt like a bully had just pushed me into the dirt, stamped on my favorite sweater and taken my fruit rollup...
...store’s lease has expired, and Little Russia will remain in its space at 99 Mt. Auburn St. only until the landlord finds a new tenant...
...landlord] asked me to sign the lease for five years. Because I am now 80 years old, that’s not possible to sign too long,” he says. “So we have to close the store...
Jeremiah P. Murphy ’73, president of the Harvard Coop—another major Square landlord which owns the building that now houses the Grafton Street bar—says there’s no secret to success that’s limited to a certain set of businesses...