Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...
...RENT GENUINE BEATNIKS," said the ad. "BADLY GROOMED BUT BRILLIANT (MALE AND FEMALE)." It appeared in the Village Voice, parochial journal of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and it represented an occupational sideline of Voice Contributor Fred W. McDarrah. The U-rent-a-hipster bit began as a joke earlier this winter, but when the first ad drew more than ten replies, McDarrah began to operate for real...
Rescue of the Sewing Machines. Once in power, Betancourt drove across Venezuela like a bulldozer. In his first five months he signed 226 decrees that authorized everything from government redemption of pawned sewing machines to the imposition of an excess-profits tax. He slashed rent and electricity rates, ordered businesses to distribute at least 10% of their yearly profits to employees and imposed the then-radical fifty-fifty formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies...
Home Cooler. A silent electric water cooler that takes up less than a square foot of space, weighs 37 lbs., has no moving parts, cools to 50° a half-gallon of water per hour and is primarily designed for the home, was introduced by Arrowhead & Puritas Waters Inc. Rent: $2.90 a month...
...passport, and after a year's wait she was on her way to London. From there she moved on to Manhattan's downtown Village Vanguard, then uptown to the Angel. The little girl from Prospect Township is making $750 a week, which could be eight years' rent for a native family in Johannesburg. RCA Victor is planning to record her songs. But Miriam wants to go home...