Word: lodger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third and lower class hotel, Ball discovered that a Mr. Burgess was registered from Philadelphia as a representative of a firm in Cincinnati, where the law student lives. Ball was unable to find the lodger named Burgess, showed a picture to the clerk, who said it might be the man, since he hadn't seen him with...
...other girls. In a detective magazine she had seen a picture of 29-year-old Robert Irwin, former insane asylum inmate, sculptor of sorts, wanted in Manhattan for the horrible Easter Sunday murders of the beauteous artists' model Veronica Gedeon. her mother and a man lodger. "Why that looks like our Bob!" she exclaimed. She showed the picture to the other girl who agreed on the resemblance. Friday night she would show it to Bob. It would amuse...
...QUIET LODGER OF IRVING PLACE- William Wash Williams-Dutton...
...most valuable contribution, something of the flavor of life in easy-going newspaper and Bohemian circles in pre-War New York. A young reporter on the New York Sunday World when he met 0. Henry, William Wash Williams was dazzled by him from the first. The Quiet Lodger of Irving Place consequently tells little that is new about the lodger, but is a nostalgic guide book to Irving Place in the days when it was bounded by Tom Sharkey's Saloon, 'Bony Pastor's vaudeville house, and the famed Scheffel Hall that O. Henry described in "Halberdier...
...bench a Nazi judge scowled down last week at the witness box in which sat Frau Elizabeth Salm. "Just go on lying as you are," said His Honor. "Do you imagine we are capable of believing you were making coffee in your kitchen while in the next room your lodger was being shot?" The lodger was famed Horst Wessel. the student who adapted a German sea chanty into Nazidom's anthem and became the official brownshirt martyr after he was shot by Communists in Frau Salm's boarding house. The shooting of Horst Wessel by four Communists occurred...