Word: landlord
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...months the men have heard talk of housing and, in not a few cases, it is a local real-estate boom, or builders with something to sell, or some interested concern that is talking loudest, and they feel, not unnaturally, discouraged after these landlord experiences. And all this time nothing is really done. The men endure, the work goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government...
Aimwell, J. M. Graham '15Archer, L. deJ. Harvard '15Sir Charles Freeman, D. Loring '16Boniface, landlord of the Inn, R. C. Fenn '15Scrub, servant to the ladies, G. C. Smith, Jr., '15Foigard, a French priest, T. K. Fisher '17Gibbet, a highwayman, W. J. R. Taylor '17Hounslow, a rogue, R. D. Campbell '17Bagshot, another rogue, A. Potter '17Tapster, C. H. Smith '15Lady Bountiful, H. Francke '15Dorinda, her daughter, W. B. Breed '15Mistress Sullen, her daughter-in-law, F. Fremont-Smith '17Gipsey, their maid, D. F. Fenn '15Cherry, the landlord's daughter, D. F. Fenn...
Bagshot, companion to Gibbet, A. Potter '17 Tapster, C. H. Smith '15 Lady Boutiful, H. Francke '15 Dorinda, her daughter, R. H. Norris,, Jr., '17 Mistress Sullen, her daughter-in-law, F. Fremont-Smith '17 Gipsey, their maid, W. B. Breed '17 Cherry, the landlord's daughter, D. F. Fenn...
...guide in such things, because it is usually ill-informed and is rarely aroused until an evil has become great. In short, the moral questions involved in the management of the corporation do not thrust themselves upon the stockholder, and are rarely brought to his notice. Like the absentee landlord of an estate he thinks of the stock as an investment, and regards it primarily, if not exclusively, from the point of view of revenue; and the revenue is independent of the morality of the management. Indeed it may be greater where the management is not too scrupulous. The stockholder...