Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the present residents have lived on Prescott St. for as many at 40 years. One tenant of 24 years declared. "I hope the students love this building as much...
...separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because his client was never served with papers in the case.) Among the highlights listed in the Kaisers' complaint: 1) all the draperies had to be replaced because Lanza's dogs preferred...
Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...
Proper Background. In appearance, manner and background, Macmillan is typecast for Foreign Secretary. He is tall (6 ft.) and debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier...
...constitutional monarch, comfortable to have around and to bow to, but without power that he might abuse. Land reform has broken down the prewar imbalance under which only 30% of the farmers owned the land they farmed: by last year, only about 1,200,000 acres were tenant-farmed...