Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...
...propped against the outside fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...
This year over 200 cases have been handled, ranging through a variety of types. One time it was a matter of a student's check being raised by a New York speakeasy; again it was a tenant fighting with his landlord over ill-heated rooms; and still a third time, it was a question of a $5,000 suit which was finally settled, under the Bureau's management...
...list of cases includes 12 on domestic relations, ten on wage claims, eight on automobile accidents, eight on real estate claims, six landlord and tenant cases and four will cases. Other miscellaneous cases were a suit against a former tenant who smeared creolin all over the wall of her apartment when forced to leave, and a suit by a woman who fell in a badly lighted stairway, for whom the Legal Aid Bureau...
...Schnebly, professor of law at the University of Missouri writes an exhaustive treatment of the rights of co-tenants in fee or for life, and remaindermen to distinguish by judicial process other interests in the land entitled "Power of Life Tenant or Remaindermen to Extinguish Other interests by Judicial Process...