Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had been running errands for the Chicago Daily News, forthwith played him up as a messenger boy. That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like a sudden-wonder prodigy whereas he has studied music for years, been generally well educated. He did not rent a dress suit for his Chicago Symphony concert. He bought one, only he forgot to try it on beforehand, found at concert time that the trousers were four inches too long, beyond benefit of suspenders. He borrowed other trousers, played brilliantly...
...Death to the rich!" Communist agitators exhort the peasants. "Take what you want instead of paying rent. Land to the poor...
...fluid oozed through the needle's lumen. The professor poked again. Unexpectedly bright red blood spurted from the hollow needle. The "blister" was really an aneurism, a bulging of the girl's weak-walled heart, and he had ruptured the heart. Her blood was flooding through the rent...
...them are unemployed. Another one-third work only two or three days per week. For each ton of coal they mine they get 28?. They work ten to twelve hours, earn from $2.60 to $4 per day. They live in company-owned shacks, without heat or light. Their rent is $10 per month. The companies charge them $1.50 per ton for fuel coal. They never see any U. S. cash. The companies pay them with company scrip, metal tokens good only at company stores. At these stores a 75? sack of flour costs 90? in scrip. A 30? public cinema...
...parish priest urged him to go to Santa Clara College. For a while he thought of being an actor, then went to Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) and was given his degree in 1907. Looking for work, he met Amadeo Peter Giannini who offered him a room, rent-free, if he would attend to some small legal matters. A few years later this association led to his becoming general counsel of Bank of Italy and in 1924 he was made president and chairman of that multi-branched institution. He has been twice decorated by the King of Italy...