Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today lean, brittle Maximilian Harden is the tenant of a grave (TIME, Nov. 7). Doubtless his ghost was in a towering rage, last week; because the fat, poodle-nosed man whom he had called "King Gustav" was quietly celebrating his fifth anniversary as German Foreign Minister. The Poodle-Man is Dr. Gustav Stresemann.* He celebrated at Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets...
From the Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
...basement of a villa at Marseilles were found some weeks ago, the bodies of two women who appeared to have been bluebearded. The tenant, M. Camille Gaillard, was said to have been seen escaping with the body of a third woman slung over his shoulder in a sack...
...doors, side by side and almost exactly alike, might confuse the unaccustomed visitor at the penthouse of the fashionable Manhattan apartment house at 570 Park avenue. In the early morning of a day last week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...