Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rent will be charged on the amount of space occupied by each man aid his wife. Since the building is a former private home, it has only one kitchen, which will be used jointly by all the occupants...
...many a U.S. city bulging with war workers, landlords have closed their doors to families with children, knowing full well they could rent them in time on their own terms. Last week these advertisements appeared in the Dallas News...
...HELP-Shall we drown our child and her dog or will some human being rent a furnished house or apartment to responsible party...
Before he could even start, Larry had to sell $400,000 worth of stock in a doorbell-pushing junket. This gave him enough cash to rent a plant, buy pencil, paper and drafting board for Larry's pet designer, chunky, modest Robert James Woods, an ex-Consolidated man known to his pals as Mr. Five-by-Five...
Author Brooks accepts the legend that young Will did his butchering with dramatic flourishes, that in London he got a job holding theatergoers' horses. Soon he earned enough money to rent out theatrical costumes and furnishings. Something of a wit in his coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others. On the side he kept a brothel: "In his tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life...