Word: landlordism
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Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...
...Diversey Street. He was absorbed immediately into the ways of the big city; tossed carelessly on the bathroom shelf was a wallet stuffed with bigger bills than he had ever seen, and the only identification was Cook County's check for $84.62. The owner, identified by the paunchy landlord, was Abe Wise. This Jew locked his bedroom door, touched his "gat" fondly, but offered Marry the hospitality of excellent bootleg, and introduced Josephine Ruska of the husky voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love, and as promptly forgot the mysterious Jew. Long evenings he spent...
...students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...
Chancellor Churchill's most audaciously successful current "jugglery" has been to so revise the periods on which the landlord's property tax payments become due that an extra payment date was smuggled into the present fiscal year...
...family were not seamen historically. Less than 100 years ago John Jacob Astor, first of the clan to stamp his name upon U. S., was still selling furs and dealing in Manhattan real estate with such finesse as to rear an historic fortune. He begat William Backhouse Astor, called "Landlord of New York." who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat William Vincent Astor...