Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished their work of sorting and mounting Roosevelt's many-sided correspondence, a work which should provide future Roosevelt biographers with a fine photographic likeness to go by. Oyster Bay's leading Republican, who wrote some 25 books during his lifetime, was quite possibly the most literate tenant the White House ever had,* but he never let his erudition interfere with a good reporter's knack for saying what he had to say quickly and directly. This makes his letters one of the most readable sets of correspondence around, as well as one of the most instructive...
Neighbors in his apartment house complained at the noisy, late parties he gave for his men friends. He was evicted as an "undesirable tenant" after one of his guests tore a washbasin off the wall, loosing streams of water which did $15,000 damage to the building. Harlow moved airily to an expensive room at the St. Moritz hotel...
...Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
...Avarice and Anger, a greedy landlord and his angry wife engage in a bitter quarrel over money the husband has taken from a poor tenant. The rather contrived ending, however, is a weak point...
...Protestant. Born the son of "a poore tenant" in Lincolnshire, Smith struck off at 20 for the Hungarian wars, where the Turks and the Habsburgs were battling for Transylvania. On the way, he said, he was robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...