Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native owner under Dutch rule is neither cheated nor expected to show the commercial genius of a Firestone or a Ford. He sits back in his Rolls-Royce (literally), draws his rent, smokes cigars about the color of his skin, and frequently elects to go about as ill-clad as Mr. Gandhi...
...have given additional work where you could. You have postponed the burdens of full payment of debts, of rent, of loans, or mortgages, of those whom fate and not their own shortcomings have handicapped. You have helped tactfully with food, with coal, with clothing, those of your friends who were facing a more strenuous period than you were yourself, as well as those strangers a mile away whom formerly you knew not even...
...Gentile the Gaumont British Corporation, controlling 300 theatres, refused to rent City Lights last week on the original Chaplin terms: 50% of the gross receipts...
...knotted about his neck, he would wander nocturnally among the poor and jobless of the city, sleeping and eating with them as public wards. Thus, when a committee of unemployed called at his office to complain about conditions in the city's almshouse and demand free food, clothing, rent, streetcar rides, and a dole of $15 a week, Mayor Mackey was well prepared to exclaim...
...glorious trip to Boston which ended in an almost unconscious invasion of the dean's study. But forget Cambridge of forty years ago and turn to Brown when Mr. Train's father was an undergraduate at Providence. Here is the bill he paid: To Tuition $12.00 Room rent 3.00 University Library 1.00 Steward's salary 2.00 Servants' hire, printing, etc 2.00 Repairs .55 Commons bill 8 weeks, $1.62 per week 12.96 Public fuel .50 Interest due to May 1st .68 Absent from prayers without excuse--once; absent from recitations without excuse--twice...