Word: landlordly
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...inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord for more than four decades before finally regaining his homestead, and that man's son, who deals his birthright away to a slick-talking tale spinner for the Rockefeller energy interests...
...neverending saga of independently owned shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
...sense, the Shops by Harvard Yard seems to be a rather clever profit-making move. According to Gifford, HRE deliberately pursued the Profitable switch form large stores to small ones. The big, older stores like The Cambridge Shop had longstanding contracts that tended to favor the storeowner over the landlord. By replacing the old standbys with tiny stores, HRE can increase the amount of rent it receives...
Boathouse bartender Mike D. Walther said yesterday that the bar will continue serving thanks to a lease that was recently agreed upon by manager John Brown and landlord Genevieve McMillan...
...gesture of every white man on earth." He apparently had reason. As the daughter grew older, she heard family tales about an incident that occurred when she was only two, and too young to remember. Her parents had fallen short of their $4-a-month rent, and the furious landlord had tried to torch the house, with the family inside. That someone would intentionally destroy his own property or burn people alive for a pittance seems implausible. The young girl believed it, and her writing would later be etched with the incommensurability between what hatred intends and what it achieves...