Word: landlordism
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...student returning to his dormitory at an early hour Saturday morning discovered the fire in Delafield's room at 84 Dunster Street. His frantic pounding on the door in an endeavor to rouse the sleepers brought only maledictions on his head from the drowsy inmates. When at last the landlord was aroused to a sense of the danger, he attacked the flames with a fire extinguisher and summoned the fire department, which promptly checked the flames, but not before Delafield's property was utterly destroyed...
...very well for Herr Stresemann and others, before and since, to shout to America for help for starving Germany, but Germany is literally crammed with food. Half of last year's harvest is still untouched. People in the towns are starving because the farmer and the landlord are keeping back foodstuffs. If I were Mr. Hoover I would not send a single bushel of grain until the stocks now in Germany were consumed...
...German farmer and landlord who at the present are starving Germany out. They are refusing to accept paper marks in payment of their produce, though others are compelled to do so, and are thus forcing the retailer to double and treble his prices. And the scandal is that the acuter the food crisis, the louder the execrations against the Jew, who, poor devil, is quite as badly hit as any one else; perhaps even worse; for the Jew preponderates in the professional classes here and it is the lawyer, the doctor and especially the journalist who are having the keenest...
...most of all, by the neglect or carelessness of the employee, it seems clear that the employer should not be held responsible. The mere fact that the man was injured while engaged in his work is no more ground for holding the employer responsible than for holding a landlord responsible for acts committed by his tenants...
...very human in her gestures and facial expressions in particular. Mr. Baker gave a consistently good interpretation of the husband, and Mr. Minturn was a self-possessed, smiling villain. Miss Beatrice Allen was a shivery, clinging type of daughter-heroine, while Mr. Slaytor did well as the landlord. One of the best pieces of acting in the entire show was done by Mr. Vivian as Ferguson, the valet. He received a liberal share of the applause, and aided in an apt characterization of his master, Devereaux, by pathetically exclaiming "You'd be such a nice man, sir, if there weren...