Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers again...
Despite the reorganization Metropolitan Life lost patience and the Drake went into receivership. The receiver, holding contract-breaking powers and no particular regard for the Drake Brothers' feelings, promptly ordered them to pay for their own parties and furthermore pay rent. When the Drakes did neither, the receiver sought court sanction to oust them. The Brothers Drake and their wives also went to court, arguing that the contract was an operating charge and therefore a prior lien on the property. Last week while the courts pondered the case, the Drakes were still in their nine-room suites...
...there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that she had a job for him in Berlin. When they arrived it turned out that she had no job, she simply wanted them to rent a room in her middle-aged love nest. Pinneberg pulled what wires came to hand and became a salesman in a slave-driving department store. Bunny luckily turned out to be a good manager. They left his shameless mother's flat, got a tiny apartment almost as cheap as it was inconvenient...
...legal beer. His incentive was a contest of the Architects' Emergency Committee. Last week the designs for taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's Industrial Mart, an idea showroom for the hotel & restaurant trade. One Peter Copeland, an architect who has not paid his rent in two months, won the first prize for both cafes and taprooms. His cafe had a modernistic oval bar in blue and white. One Kate Hall won first prize for a beer garden design, showing tables around a mammoth blue vase and plots of pink flowers, the walls shaded...
...Emperor Nicholas I had to be rescued from Russians by Britishers," Alexander thought of suicide. Further humiliations were to follow. In Paris he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter England, for the time being. The landlord of his Paris apartment held him up for back rent. When he called on his old friend Arthur Balfour, in Paris for the Peace Conference, he saw Balfour running for an exit to avoid seeing him. Asked by Balfour's secretary if he would like to leave a message, Alexander replied, "Yes, by all means. Tell him that...