Word: landlordly
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...justification for that pioneer enterprise. For The Three Sisters is a great drama that could not possibly succeed in a Broadway house. It tells of the dry rot creeping upon a class of Russian society which, for years, has been privileged to do nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there is life. They will go. But they never do. They just relapse into the tragic, supine, half-dead repose fastened upon them...
Trinity Church, on Broadway opposite Wall Street, two centuries ago owned approximately 60 acres of Manhattan land between Broadway and the Hudson River. Much other land has been donated since. Much has been sold. Trinity still is a very great landlord, and, like all great landlords of urban property, cannot keep supervision on its tenants-be they banks, brothels or Macfaddens...
Sixty white oxen drew this country's first steam mill across the continent, to Sutter. Shiploads of firearms, seeds, implements, nails, clothing rounded the Horn annually, for Sutter. The world's soundest banks were pleased to extend credit to America's biggest landlord, Johann August Sutter...
Wallpaper. The landlord who let his tenant select her own wallpaper, the homeowner who fidgeted while his white-overalled paperhanger butted the paper like a crazy-quilt, the rural housewife who hung her own−they spent $40,000,000 last year, bought 350,000,000 rolls, kept more than 40 U. S. wallpaper manufactories busy. The Wallpaper Manufacturers of America last week noted that this was more than the 323,000,000 rolls of $34,755,000 value...
...Legal Aid Bureau handles cases of all types although E. S. Reid said that experience has shown that most cases are concerned with domestic relations, landlord and tenant and wage disputes, and petty torts. In order not to be used as a divorce mill, the Bureau has all cases dealing with domestic cases investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union before acting upon them...