Word: landlordly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder. Later he had seen David Blackstone, a strapping Negro hot tamale peddler, and inquired: "How come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down and confessed...
...program will appear such numbers as the "Washington Post March" by the Banjo Club, "Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl" by the Vocal Club, Shubert's "March Militaire" by the Mandolin Club, popular selections by the Gold Coast Orchestra and as a specialty number, "Legerdemain" by W. S. Warner...
...from Columbia University three full city blocks in mid-Manhattan (48th to 51st Streets, between Fifth & Sixth Avenues). He offered to incorporate a new Metropolitan Opera House upon it in the midst of a great new commercial-cultural centre. The plan fell through. Mr. Rockefeller was left the embarrassed landlord of three city blocks and many of the best known speakeasies in Manhattan. Three weeks ago it was announced that Mr. Rockefeller had assembled collaborators: Radio-Keith-Orpheum, National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corporation of America. Not an opera house, but a Radio City incorporating three skyscrapers and four theatres, would...
...Landlord...
...began to live in a large oak tree belonging to Tom Green. On coming to Horatio 25 years ago, he secured a room at the hotel, fixed a peculiar lock on the door, said in a German accent, "Just call me Fred Brown." On finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green's tree, put a strip of tin around the bottom of the tree...