Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
...poem she had written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief...
...Congress in 1915 "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight," NACA has 15 members who serve without compensation. Of its $900,000 general appropriation for fiscal 1933, NACA spent $600,043 for "personal services," $1,545 for "transportation of things," $960 to rent an office in Paris. Of President Wilson's original appointees, there remain only Dr. Ames and Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 75, retired chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau...
...with greying hair, he served eight years in that capacity. Last week he was arrested for defalcation of $329,000. No stockmarket plunger, he had invested in New York City real estate and pleasant living. On a salary cut from $11,000 to $5,400 he paid $3,000 rent for a big house on Long Island, kept two automobiles, two servants. Declared Samson Wallach: "I have never gambled outside of playing the real estate market. I have no women. If you think I have a blonde, I have no blonde. I don't go for them...
...money to spend during the academic year; (that they have more than the average student, is beside the point); their club dues come to at least $250 a year. By living in boarding houses in and around Cambridge, they can save anywhere from $100 to $200 on their room rent, and even more on their meals. The price charged by the University for twenty one meals a week is more than reasonable since one could not possible eat as cheaply in the Cambridge restaurants. But the club man naturally wants to eat fairly often in his club, and consequently...