Word: lodger
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...Ripper seem no more than a sort of lovable nuisance on a late date. In this picture, in fact, he literally does just that. Director Hugo Fregonese lets himself get caught between his old-fashioned devil (the screenplay is based on Marie Belloc Lowndes's 1913 thriller, The Lodger) and the deep blue sea of modern psychiatric interpretation...
London's fogs, which once romantically shrouded the nocturnal prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
There were no signs of a struggle, but the landlady said the middle-aged man had been accustomed to bringing young men home for the evening now and then. During the night, she heard sounds which sounded to her as if the lodger was preparing for a trip...
...only before representatives of all the world's nations. But diplomatic red tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...
...Artful Lodger. In Knoxville, Tenn., Landlady Lettie Rogers charged in a lawsuit that Roomer Comer Bailey was 244 weeks behind in his rent...