Word: landlordism
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...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
...killed in a Southern race riot, who lives with his mother, sister and kid brother in one room in the Chicago slums. With his pals he indulges in fantasies of machine-gunning white enemies. Through an unctuous social worker, Bigger gets a job as chauffeur to the wealthy landlord of the tenement he lives in. The landlord's handsome daughter (Anne Burr) is a neurotic, alcoholic Fellow Traveler who adopts an intimate manner toward Bigger...
...potato came to Europe from the New World in the 16th Century. Its parasitic fungus followed about 1840, attacked almost every potato plant in Europe. Worst outbreak was in Ireland, whose wretched peasantry was already starving because of another parasite, the English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event...
There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...
Cases involving landlord and tenant are the most common, with divorce and separation running close seconds. Five cases of libel and slander, and two involving estates of incompetents were handled last year...