Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploited by the owners of assignation houses, sanitary inspectors, and policemen. We are also exploited by the stores which charge us more for clothing, and by the landlords who charge us more for rent. And when we are no longer able to work at our profession we are cast out into the world without hope of rehabilitation...
...father, apparently a man of some means, Titian formed an early partnership with Giorgione, soon won profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara to see the Duke, Titian would rent a barge and five servants. Going to Ferrara on his own business he used the cheapest cargo boats...
...before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin of the girl's cheek, from the upper incision to the hole...
Since the price of tuition and room rent will be remitted to suitable students, the total cost of the project, including academic expenses and a roundtrip journey from the Pacific coast, is estimated at $700. An additional $200 is recommended for contingencies and travel in China...
...landlordship to the Negros is one of circumstance rather than design, for Harlem's color once was predominantly Jewish-white, and when the better Negro sought a better-than-slum home only the compassionate Jew would suffer him to rent such a domicile. The influx of all other Negroes soon forced the Jew out but into the housing business...