Word: rent
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...career at Oxford, he bought himself an orchestra, which he called the Beecham Philharmonic but which the rest of the musical world called the "Pillharmonic." After a while, Beecham's father decided to endorse his career, gave him financial backing to form his own opera company and to rent London's Covent Garden opera house, which Beecham Sr. later bought. There Beecham presented some 60 operas unfamiliar to the British public, but still found himself regarded more as a playboy impresario than as a serious conductor. When Beecham's father died, the estate was tied...
...took Freeman more than a year to discover northern racial prejudice. Last year, his first in America, Freeman lived in a Tufts dormitory and encountered no prejudice. When he and two fellow Liberians decided to rent an apartment off campus this fall, they soon found a suite of rooms on Massachuetts Avenue. Freeman was shocked, therefore, to encounter discrimination this winter when he sought a room for a Liberian friend. For two days Freeman and friend sought shelter at houses which sported room-for-rent signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room...
Several agencies have been established to assist graduate students in finding homes. For example, through PBH Harvard offers the student a list of apartments whose landlords have signed a pledge promising "not to refuse to rent to any student of Harvard University and Radcliffe College because of race, creed, color, or national origin." MIT has a similar listing, as does the International Student Association...
Running the house, once a good enough home but now much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices...
Opposing Bullitt's view was Edward L. Pattullo, assistant Dean of the Faculty. "Although the Houses are probably too crowded," Pattullo declared, "many students would object to the increase in room rent which would be necessary to reduce the number of students living in each suite...