Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 24, p. 74: ". . . one who declaimed; 'If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell...
...owned Texas and hell I would rent Texas and move to hell," said a famous general...
Close-mouthed artists refuse to say how much rent they pay for riparian rights to their small plots of sand. To the City they pay nothing for licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed...
...only trouble about being a Senator's wife is that the Senator may not be reelected. Wives of Supreme Court Justices, who are appointed for life, can really settle down in Washington. Senatorial families usually find it safer to rent a house than buy one. F. F. V.'s and Mayflower Bostonians may consider Washington society a cosmopolitan free-for-all except in those small circles tangent to their own, but to the vast majority of U. S. housewives, a Senator's wife is well above the social timberline. Commoners who suspect that Senators' wives them...
...knew would arise over the schism led by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. This absentee was Rev. Dr. William Hiram Foulkes, moderate Presbyterian, sonorous orator, pastor of Old First Church in Newark, N. J. By last week the acrimony had subsided, Dr. Machen had died, his rebel church was rent by theological squabbles over millennialism,* and Dr. Foulkes turned up in Columbus as a commissioner. The Assembly was marked by businesslike calm. Commissioner Foulkes and his colleagues learned that the Presbyterian Church had recovered $1,600,000 in property, and counted on $400,000 more, which Dr. Machen...