Word: lodger
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...honor of Hitchcock's visit, Ivy Films began showing two all Hitchcock double-features yesterday. Yesterday's films were The Lodger (1926) and Shadow of a Doubt...
...same appetizing flavors may be found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...
...made a profit. Followed by a retinue of three prostitutes and some offspring of indeterminate parentage, they roamed Tennessee and Kentucky murdering anybody who seemed defenseless: old peddlers, itinerant fiddlers, children, slaves. Hospitality especially infuriated them. When a woman gave them lodging for a night, they tomahawked a fellow lodger because he was snoring too loudly. They slit the throat of the woman's baby while pretending to rock it; finally, they knifed the woman...
...hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young typist (Samantha Eggar...
...weekend house parties (escorted vacation cruises to Greece or Egypt are optional). Students do not live in dormitories, but (at an additional cost of close to $2.000) are placed with families who can offer both high social standing and-an even more difficult requirement-a private bathroom for each lodger...