Word: landlordly
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Considerable private trade goes on, especially risky, lucrative smuggling. Most legitimate marketing is handled by consumer-producer cooperatives. In parts of the Border Region, the old landlord-tenant system is preserved with modifications. Rent and interest have been cut an average 25%. Landlords may not evict tenants.Tenants must pay their rent on time except in cases of crop failure when both sides share the loss...
...photographer, Boston, who falls in love with an agreeable Syd as played by Doreen Saxton, Radcliffe '48. Nancy Boyle, Radcliffe '46 is excellent as the emotional young wife, and Tom Gad '46 convincing, if a bit stiff, as her artist husband. William Mayleas '46 plays Mr. Stein, a stern landlord...
Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut. Colonel Sir Thomas Moore. M.P., into court, got him fined $29. Reason: over the doorway of the building where Wells lives, Sir Thomas had posted a large sign for a Salvation Army Service Club on the premises. Fumed the novelist: "[I am] entirely hostile to this needless cheapening of one of the best sites in London." Fumed the M.P. (who refused to tear down the sign): "They may prosecute me again. ... I shall bring the matter up in Parliament...
...Days. In Los Angeles, a federal jury convicted Landlord George S. Allen of violating the rent ceiling by charging one of his tenants $2.75 as monthly rent...
...little later correspondents all over the world began telling our editors just how people around them were reacting to Dday. One of the first was Lauterbach's report from Moscow, beginning with how his landlord had kissed him when he came down to breakfast and cried: "We love you, we love you, we love...