Word: rente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising than the every-day fare...
Apartments, Manhattan, last March, six months before his lease was up. The landlord brought suit to collect rent for the balance of the lease. Basso Gustafson, last week in court, thundered that he had two good reasons for moving out: 1) Killer Harry K. Thaw was his neighbor, 2) patrol wagons at the door and policemen riding in the apartment's elevators were annoying, especially when they came to arrest disorderly women. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (née Dorothy Thompson) last week accused Theodore (American Tragedy') Dreiser of plagiarism. She had written an able book entitled...
...Rent Free. For five years Mr. & Mrs. Hadley Beck, U. S. citizens, have lived rent free in Paris, by tying up their houseboat to docks along the Seine. They have even escaped dock rent by moving their boat a few yards every fortnight...
...made yet another calculation. Even more significant than General Motors in the eyes of many a businessman are the reports of the mighty U. S. Steel Corp., now ending its first full year under committee management. As everyone knows, the mantle of the late, great Elbert H. Gary was rent into three parts. The first part fell on John Pierpont Morgan as Chairman of the Board; the second on Myron Charles Taylor as Chairman of the Finance Committee; the third on James Augustine Farrell as President. Last week, this triumvirate of tycoons announced quarterly earnings of $52,148,476, largest...
Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops...