Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seller that within three days of its publication His Majesty's stationery office announced that the last copy of the first printing (17,000 copies) had been "distributed." Telegrams ordering more poured in from booksellers all over the British Isles, from clubs, even from "circulating libraries" which usually rent only fiction. England was excited. England knew that Sir John Simon and his commission had labored more than two years, including 21,000 miles of travel back and forth across India and "taking testimony" in every important city-all for the purpose of finding out and recommending whethera larger...
...spend it in America. I've worked my hands to the bone for the boys, and when I die I'll leave my money to them. . . . Yes, I told Ed to buy the ticket for me. He was a dollar short in his rent that week, so that made it even. . . . I've played the horses all my life, and now I've beaten them at last. . . . Maybe I'll go to Ireland, I don't know...
LOST SHEEP?What happens when a clergyman's family rent an abandoned bordello (TIME...
...proper and suitable party" was being sought last week by President Hoover to rent his Palo Alto home on a long-term lease...
...perennially there has cropped out some work in which appears a gruff but indulgent father, a silly mother and a romantic daughter, all making the Grand Tour for the first time. Ada Beats the Drum is concerned with the antics of Mr. & Mrs. Hubbard (of Keokuk, Iowa) abroad. Having rented a villa in the south of France, Mother Hubbard (Mary Boland) encourages her husband, without much trouble, to frequent the local bars in the hope that he will bring home cultured "foreigners." But Mr. Hubbard's barroom friendships are consistently formed with other Americans and Mrs. Hubbard finally strikes...