Word: landlordism
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Persuader. In Chicago, Merlin W. Griffith and his family of eight went to court with a bitter complaint: his landlord, trying to get him to move, was using a twelve-piece band in the small hours of the night...
After Longfellow died in 1882, the real history of Craigie House ended. While the downstairs rooms were turned into a museum, a few married Radcliffe girls live on the second floor, with Longfellow's grandson, who writes historical books on Cambridge, as landlord. A few months ago some of the present residents hysterically reported the presence of a ghost. Whether Washington's or Longfellow's no one cared to say, but the shades of either may very well be still lurking among the elms...
Campaign. In Fort Worth, a landlord was fined $1,000 for trying to oust a tenant by decorating his apartment door with placards: "Ward for Unwed Mothers," "Venereal Disease Ward for Women...
...were for it. If they were crazy last year, why should we be this year?" Big-"city Congressmen were just as angry for the opposite reason. They claimed that a provision permitting a 15% rent boost in return for a two-year lease was putting a shotgun in the landlord's hands...
Frank & Bitter. There are only five actors in O'Neill's new play, and three of them carry the whole of it. The three: James Dunn as a drunken bachelor landlord; Mary Welch as a big Connecticut hill girl; J. M. Kerrigan as her conniving, Irish tenant farmer father. The play tells of Dunn's blind quest for redemption from a hell of liquor and women; of Miss Welch's efforts to make him happy and to alleviate her own hell as an outsized woman; of her father's willingness to make something...