Word: roomers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sell the Cell. In Buffalo, arrested after a noisy quarrel with his wife and a roomer, Melvin Schaffer gladly pleaded guilty to a drunk charge, was forlorn when his wife paid the $10 fine and took him home over his protests that he needed the alternate ten-day jail sentence for a rest...
...Card. The FBI, in rechecking McCarthy's 81 cases, had turned up a new witness, Harold W. Metz, who had been a graduate student with Lorwin at Cornell. In 1935 they met again in Washington, and Metz lived for a few months as a paid roomer in the Lorwins' apartment. Metz, a onetime researcher for the Republican National Committee (and now on the staff of the Hoover Commission) told the FBI that one evening some "strange-looking people" were leaving the apartment as he entered. Asked about them, Lorwin said there had been a Communist-cell meeting...
...that every line she voiced sounded to me like "oooh, full faith and credit," but some of the other Irish, especially Phyllis Love as a sheltered young damsel under Maggy's wide wing, are able to vary their inflections with their emotions. In this respect, Salem Ludwig, as a roomer, beats them all; but he is supposed to be a Rumanian...
That was Tuesday. For the next few days Sylvie busied herself collecting two weeks' rent in advance from every roomer at the hotel. She sent her suitcases to the railroad station and asked a woman to take care of her children. Then she bid her roomers goodbye. "I'm off," she explained, "to the maternity hospital...
Artful Lodger. In Knoxville, Tenn., Landlady Lettie Rogers charged in a lawsuit that Roomer Comer Bailey was 244 weeks behind in his rent...