Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word of the suspension came to the press, a despatch from Paris announced that General Pershing, arriving in France to inspect war monuments, cemeteries and battle fields, had motored up from Cherbourg to Paris with his young friend of war-days, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...last week the Senate tore its hair, rent the air with cries and filled the Congressional Record with words for the sake of the nation's farmers...
...once great, now dwindling, Liberal party continued rent (TIME, June 7) last week as Lloyd George, Liberal leader in the Commons, was further baited in letters to the press by Lord Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the party...
...wedding party did not attempt to eat, but waited for luncheon until they returned to the Mellon apartment, which takes up a whole floor in a huge apartment building on Massachusetts Ave. Even this extraordinary home was overtaxed by the wedding, and the Secretary was obliged to rent an ordinary apartment below his own huge one in which to accommodate wedding guests and wedding presents...
...Lisbon, a capital whose surpassing natural beauty and once imposing buildings have been overlaid in recent years by a scum of filth, poverty and decay, there occurred last week one more of the successful military insurrections which have rent the republic of Portugal since the overthrow of the monarchy...