Word: lodger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. She got used to sleeping two and three in a bed, but night alarms made her nerves jumpy. At the Gietradis house, where the whole family slept in one room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love...
...cowardice. Berger knows that he was no coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold to him. Meanwhile Lydersen, who had shown fight only because of panicky surprise, becomes a hero, scorns Berger with the rest. Only one man, Rognaas, a fellow lodger of Lydersen's, makes mock of his heroism, tells him that Berger was the only sensible one of the three...
...from "Creation," by J. W. Johnson; R. N. Clark '32, from "Morte d' Arthur," by Malory; D. I. Cooke '31, on the "Ecclesiastes; D. B. Edmundson '32, from "New England Weather," by Mark Twain; R. S. Fitzgerald '33, from "The Heart of Darkness," by Conrad; G. E. Lodger '32, from Plato's "Apology;" T. I. Moran '32, from "American Isolation," by O. D. Young; P. C. Reardon '32, from "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes; J. J. Ryan, Jr., '31. from Wilson's first inaugural address; and D. M. Sullivan '33, from "Moon Island," by Stephen Vincent Benet...
Last week Landlady Mme Fekety appeared in Budapest's District Court, asked for an ejectment order against Lodger Talor Bela Nager. Objection: "Noisy and dirty habits" of Lupus, Lodger Nager's Alsatian dog. Defending counsel pleaded for closer scrutiny of the facts: "I ask that Lupus, who is now sitting with his ears erect and his tail wagging outside the door, eagerly awaiting a chance to clear his character, be summoned as a witness." The Court smiled shrewdly, rejected the plea. "It is impossible," said the Court, "to administer the oath even to the most intelligent wolf...