Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fedora. The expertly insulting Alexander Woollcott observed in honor of this production that the "To Rent" sign had been taken off the theatre and "To Rant" substituted. Fedora is a furiously emotional exhibit. It was played by Tilla Durieux (breast beater) ?in German. Just why it was produced nobody has been able to determine...
...that he may have some of the capital. Ben, it seems, burned a barn in his early youth and has not been seen until the hour of mother's death. These are the basic entanglements. Then Jane plays the Samaritan. She keeps Ben out of jail, pays Henry's rent, and buys Orrin a pair of skates. In return for this she is tolerated. Several rifts in the course of true love occur...
...official orders prescribed that full reverence be accorded to him, which meant there must be absolutely no noise. The sight of a white figure stepping from the launch, which landed the prince, was too much for his idolizing people. Kotaishi denka Banzai! (10,000 years to the Crown Prince!) rent the air from tens of thousands of throats, thundered over the waters and reverberated along the hills and down the streets-the Prince, their Prince, had come home...
...groaned Lampy tragically, "we've become funny." The Blot moaned and turned his face to the wall. "But I have a plan," murmured the Ibis at last. "We shall rent the walk of Plympton Street and cause to come forth a mighty geyser, that he who looks may wonder!" Lampy spat into the fire and then nodded his belled cap in glee...
...monkey only cost $35, the owners hurried to the Cambridge police station to protest against the illegal rent. A policeman accompanied the plaintiffs to the boarding house and after examining the evidence fixed the damages at $10. Reluctantly she announced that they could phone later and she would consult her husband, but on Sunday Central said that the number had been disconnected. Yesterday, however, Mrs. Buralk telephoned the owners and admitted that she will have to give in. The house was in a mess and Kinney had devoured "The Book of Knowledge...