Word: renting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rent-Producing Uses...
...unusual, then, that seven years ago a young commercial artist in Calcutta pawned his wife's jewels to rent a creaking, out-of-date movie camera. With a few of his actor-friends, Satyajit Ray left Calcutta one Sunday for an isolated village to the north. In that village, without building a single set or even clearing the yard, where much of the action takes place, he began filming Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"). It was the first time he had ever operated a camera...
Father is an intellectual, not a do-it-yourself handyman, and the gate stays off its hinges. "Bursting with ideas for plays and poems," he works as a rent collector as his pile of unpublished manuscripts grows higher and higher. When Mother complains that the children are undernourished. Father--decent man that he is--drops his pen, rolls up his scrolls, and heads for Calcutta to earn some rice-money...
...time, "who goes down to the cellar to empty his own garbage.") Since then they have moved into a more luxurious, ten-room apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue (there was a splash of newspaper publicity when the landlords on the fashionable East Side refused to rent to a Negro family). Belafonte has collected contemporary paintings and Haitian sculptures, in the vocabulary of his trade cares little for clothes (twelve suits, eight sports jackets, three tuxedos), owns no real estate. He drinks little (he has no head for liquor), neither diets nor exercises regularly to keep...
...Harvard Band, occupant of the basement of the building, will not finance any of the building fees, although its headquarters will also be improved. Hallowell said, "The Varsity Club has recognized the Band's great contribution to University athletics," and so also does not charge the Band rent for use of the building...