Word: landlordly
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...projects conservatively. To some extent, the Straus survey is borne out by the Dodge figures for awarded building contracts. In October, the latter amounted to $410,000,000, which is 19% over the preceding September, and 14% over October, 1923. Rentals here in general held up fairly well. The landlord must, however, learn one important economic truism. He may hold up high prices for a while, without profit or at a loss to himself. But high prices encourage production, which sooner or later produces an unusable surplus, which in turn reduces prices again. The longer artificially high prices are sustained...
...epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs...
...Crothers is pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge and is nationally famous as an essayist. His works include "The Gentle Reader", "Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord", "The Dame-School of Experience", and "How to Know Emerson...
...Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...
Mile. Lallemant is a crystal gazer who, since she successfully predicted the future of Gaston Doumergue, President of France, has enjoyed boundless popularity. Her landlord objected to her fame when it began to wear out the carpet on the stairway of his house. He asked her to go. She refused. He sued her because of so many "comings and goings." She defended herself. The judge ruled that she could not be evicted since her stream of visits was made "by most honorable personalities in the most faultless manner...