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...hitches, are semi-pro by their own, if not their lieutenant's, reckonings; the other seven include homeless kids, a mulatto misfit, an aged and ageless field hand with a whip-striped back. In the eyes of Lieut. Byrne -a D.P. himself, as the son of an evicted tenant farmer from County Galway-they are as motley as the loth Cavalry's moniker for the whole of Troop M: the Calico Troop...
Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...
...what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral is the unique safeguard of the qualitative." It allows boys and girls "to show their true nature . . . the whole personality ... A man who does not know how to talk today is devalued...
Avoid "Janitor." Encyclopedic in managerial lore, Nickerson is perhaps most fascinating in discussing the semantics of the trade. In what might be called Nickerson's Law of Apartment Ad Copy, it turns out that "redecorated" and "spacious" will make a prospective tenant's mouth water more longingly than any other words. "Owner" is the O.K. word today for landlord ("The New Deal fostered a bitter reaction to 'Landlord' "). An accomplished owner delegates most of his work to his "manager" ("Avoid the word 'janitor' ... a higher-class manager can be hired by referring...
...business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...