Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goof!" From Mrs. Browning's pet African honking goose: "Honk! Honk! It's the bonk!" The Graphic started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME...
...whole indicts marriage on a charge of economical absurdity parading under an alias of natural necessity. For all its whirring the play grinds no ax in the presence of the audience. It succeeds because it stages the battle of Rent v. Romance as essential drama. It is the best U. S. comedy of the season. Rejected by several producers, it is brilliantly directed by Guthrie McClintic in his first venture with the Actors' Theatre. The cast is uniformly excellent...
...least patronized of all the at tractions offered Harvard men in the Square is that which allures by the exhibitrating "Rent this fine car! And drive it yourself". To many a steering wheel in the hand and a foot on the clutch are synonymous with "Drivurself". In Fords, Chryslers, Buicks and Hudson Broughams Harvard men, in increasing numbers, drive forth daily and nightly for business and pleasure. Around them classic myths have begun to circulate...
...took a Ford out one morning and drove to an exam in it," the agent in one of the most popular drive it yourself establishments told a Crimson reporter. "I saw nothing of him until about dinner time. He came in and wanted to rent a car to go to Boston. After looking him over carefully I asked him if he had not taken a car out that morning. Red in the face he boat a hasty retreat in the direction of Memorial Hall, blaspheming exams in general...
...band came, he played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness...