Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provocation." In a telephone call to his wife, in Seattle, he added: "They did not find a thing on me: no papers or plans. They have nothing." His Seattle landlady seemed to agree. Said she: "I don't understand how a man who paid his rent so promptly could...
...other important examples of the gap between appearance and reality. One was the result of a visit to Oberammergau, where Bavarian peasants performed their world-famed Passion Play. Schoenberner discovered that the peasant who played the role of Christ was thereby enabled to charge tourists twice as much rent for his rooms as any of his followers (Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow). The second lesson in perspective came through World...
Last week, Tory M.P. William Shepherd rose in Commons. Asked he: "Is it not a waste of three policemen's time? Lenin lived in the house only about a fortnight and he left without paying his rent.* Cannot the Home Secretary get this bust put in an institution...
Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
Average prices per man in the Houses will rise from $130 to $144 while in the Yard they will jump from $119 to $124. For doubled-up suites, $40 per additional man will be added to the room's total rent, which will then be divided equally among its occupants...