Word: lodger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aspern Papers is a most lively tale concerning the adventure of a young publisher who intrudes himself, "on the footing of a lodger," into a dilapidated Venetian palazzo, where lives, with a middle-aged niece, an ancient woman who, ages before, had been mistress of the great poet Jeffrey Aspern, and who is still purported to possess a packet of love letters from him. It is the object of the publisher fellow to possess himself of these billets-an object which eludes him when the middle-aged niece, after her aunt's death, burns the letters because he will...
Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches...
Reactions ranging from favorable to barely Jukewarm have thus far greeted Housemasters' offers that occupants of 20 of their "least inconvenienced suites," invite one additional man into their rooms before the extra lodger is thrust upon them...
...Sundays, he took walks with his landlady, who clung snugly to his arm. Otherwise he seemed to have no friends. Storekeepers found him quick-tempered, particularly when they had no cigarets for him. But even the most suspicious of his neighbors did not connect Mrs. Mayer's lodger with many unexplained neighborhood happenings. Sometimes, for hours, strangers sat in parked cars with motors running, only to drive away, return again. At night other strangers prowled the block...
...Cregar had a hard time persuading Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...