Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally as the old Harvard cheer with nine Hollisheimer on the end rent the air, forward stepped the President of the University who threw his doctor's robe over something of what had been Appleby to signify that-the last of the Hollisheimer had attained his degree...
Northerners suggested that George L. ("Tex") Rickard and Charles C. Pyle found a university, hire a Manhattan hotel, rent the Yankee Stadium for the "big" games...
...pleasant thing about a department store, so business men tells us, is that if imported lamp-shades and other fripperies fall to sell, the boots and dresses and draperies will pay the rent; and if such staples are less in demand one month than another, the fripperies, on the other hand, may well serve to keep the woll from the owner's Italio-Greco-Romanesque facade. The Advocate has profited by by this axiom of the trade, and in the last two years has built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest...
...came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. had decided to go nonunion. And then Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse all groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company's houses. The Union, disheartened, settled down to a long, long wait. The operators, sat back, hoping, if not expecting that the Union would smash itself...
Meanwhile, Lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...