Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave up caravan-living, bedded himself down in a 75-room, 17thCentury castle near Oldendorf, Germany. (The castle's ex-tenant. Baron von Vincke, got a room over a bar in the village...
...year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...
...Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, who has been "dabbling in real estate" since she became the ex-wife of Mississippi's loud-mouthed senator, went to court for messing around with an old Southern accentuation. Seeking to evict a tenant of her Jackson, Miss, duplex, she said: "No damyankee is going to ruin . .. my house." Said the judge, dismissing the indignant tenant's charge of disorderly conduct: according to Southern usage, Mrs. Bilbo was "not cursing...
...Author Bromfield's resources and tastes are exceptional, his farm problem was common as dirt. In fact, it was dirt. The three farms he bought were typical of millions of acres of once-rich U.S. land. They had been farmed recklessly, then rented to tenant farmers who put nothing, back into the land, and finally, as the top soil washed away, abandoned. Bromfield's grandfather had raised eight children on a 100-acre valley farm, and bought little more than spices, tea, salt and coffee. Bromfield's 640 acres, when he bought them, would not support...
...each family he supplied all food except "coffee, spices and sugar," and a salary "above the average." He agreed to put up whatever money was needed until the farms showed a profit. Then he was to receive the first 5%, with all profits above that divided according to each tenant's salary...