Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first 21 years. A graduated rental scale has been arranged for the second and last periods. These three periods have doubtless been fixed to correspond to Beethoven's famous "three periods," out of respect for the composer's shade, which undoubtedly haunts the hall. The rent for the entire 63 years will amount to the neat little sum of $27,500,000. In addition, the tenant has agreed to pay taxes, insurance and running expenses...
Clarksburg, W. Va., stood hat in hand to greet John W. Davis. A train drew in, Mr. Davis appeared at the rear end of the compartment car President Adams, entered an automobile, progressed homewards. Cheers rent the air. Mr. Davis, bareheaded, bowed and smiled...
...oldest tradition of the East is hospitality, the next oldest cour- tesy. Ignoring all ill-mannered Cis-and Trans-Pacific bickerings over the immigration dispute, the Imperial household of Japan restored the balance of Nippo-American amenities by presenting the American colony of Toyko, rent free, with a valuable tract of land, as a site for an American School...
...chorus was divided-a part of it in each of the rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...
...Foul!" which "rent...