Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pallid, pretty face of Josephine Hutchinson, playing Mlle Bourrat, is a frail tissue rent with bewilderment and agony. Also in the cast is her mother, Leona Roberts, ridiculous as a hobbling, puffing aunt. Eva Le Gallienne does not appear, but her associates make this simple story a rich miniature of provincial weal...
...this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
...John Kvale.† He went to bed all alone in his summer cottage, "Trail's End." All night he was alone. Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
...week, signed a lease on a $78 apartment (4 rooms) in New Haven, Conn., for himself and wife-to-be, Miss Florence Trumbull. Miss Trumbull approved modern conveniences already installed, ordered washtubs. Wrote Citizen Calvin Coolidge last month: No newly married couple should pay more rent per month than the husband earns per week...
...third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick...