Word: landlordism
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...apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung about the draughty corridor until Criminologist Bayle stepped briskly through the door, started upstairs to his beloved laboratory. Stepping forward, Salesman Philipponet fired three times. The great Gaston Bayle swayed, then rolled to the stairs, sprawled, gasped up a mouthful of blood, was dead...
...monthly at the amount of their rent bills, might well take comfort from a consideration of the rent which Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. of New York will soon be paying. Last week this bank contracted to pay rent of almost $500,000 a year for 42 years. Its landlord will be unique Henry L. Doherty; its premises, the first five floors at No. 60 Wall Street (Cities Service Co. building, now being remodeled). Commercial National has signed a 21-year lease with an option for a 21-year renewal. During a prospective 42-year occupancy it will...
...Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated no lamb, no innocent...
...landlord to the large district between Mount Auburn Street and the river Harvard has shown little more civic pride. Houses are rented and inhabited which would be better fitted to the surroundings of East Boston. Even in Shepherd Hall, a college dormitory, the accommodations are a disgrace to present-day housing standards...