Word: tenant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William M. Tanner, member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, spoke yesterday to a social psychology class (Psychology 31) on the subject of the needs of the sharecropper...
...green levees girdling the Mississippi. There, hidden in an elbow of the I river, far from the nearest village, stands a white-columned plantation house. Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugarcane workers or tenant farmers. But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers...
...unlikely habitation for ghosts is the 27-story Manhattan apartment-hotel called One Fifth Avenue. Yet last week ghosts were astir in that swank Greenwich Village tower. They had moved in with the new tenant in 24-A, a spry, 60-year-old, brown-eyed grandmother from Taos, N. M., with long greying bangs, hornrimmed glasses, a thirst for new experiences. The new tenant's name is Mabel Dodge Luhan. After a quarter century she had come back to open a new salon...
...though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become installed as a natural feature of the landscape." The camera narrows to young Jerphanion, who first appeared in the first vol ume as a sensitive, acute, idealistic student arriving in Paris to attend the Normal School. Jerphanion, as a second lieu tenant, returns from leave in Paris. He renews his acquaintance with the trans forming fact of trench fear. He and his sardonic pal Fabre get relief in a joke, adapted from an article by Foch. Jerphanion asks Fabre what he thinks will happen that winter. Fabre clenches his fist. "This...