Word: landlordly
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...Lacandones know little about the outside world. When told that Mexico once had a "landlord" (Spain), an old man replied: "There are no landlords here; only water, trees and sky." They had heard that a German lived in Ocozingo, a tiny Mexican settlement on the edge of their territory. When World War II was described to them, they got a vague idea that there must be much going on in Ocozingo...
...read the family letters, that we've been working up toward something for a long time." At these words Osbert "experienced a slight lifting of the heart." But his father was not referring to the literary notoriety of his three children.* Sir George, wealthy landlord of the great Yorkshire estate of Renishaw (inherited by Sir Osbert in 1943) believed that art was merely "part of the general make-up of the cultured man." To prove it, he once tried to have "all the white cows in the park stenciled with a blue Chinese pattern...
Shortly after he seized power, poverty-stricken, landlord-ridden peons revolted. Tattered peasant armies marched on the capital. The theosophist met them with shot & shell, screaming "Communists! Bolsheviks!" The U.S. Government believed him, sent the U.S. cruiser Rochester up from Panama, loaded with marines. Two Canadian destroyers and a British cruiser also appeared. When they reached El Salvador, the theosophist reported that the situation was well in hand; he had "liquidated 4,800 Bolsheviks." The visiting forces did not interfere. Before Mexico's intervention halted the blood bath, about 15,000 peons had been slaughtered...
...Hazlitt's crushing defeat at Waterloo were added a separation from his wife, interminable literary squabbles and the most harrowing emotional experience of Hazlitt's life-his unrequited love for his landlord's daughter. She was "pale as the primrose," and once looked at Hazlitt with so fetching an expression in her eyes that he never really recovered. Of her remarkable eyes Hazlitt wrote later: "I might have spied in their glittering motionless surface, the rocks and quicksands that awaited me below." After months of fruitless wooing, Hazlitt learned that the landlord's daughter loved another...
...forgetting that a situation is not a play. An immensely rich, three-times-married addlepate with Communist leanings (Billie Burke) decides to get in trim for the Revolution by practicing poverty in advance. She rents a $40-a-month house in a New England town, discovers that her widowed landlord (Frank Craven) is a former rock-ribbed Republican President...