Word: landlordly
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...Rain" is a play of unusual mechanical workmanship. Its main theme is unquestionably depressing, but it is so thoroughly woven with comedy that the pill is given a most palatable sugarcoating. Mr. Holmes is most delightful as the Falstaffian landlord, Mr. Rogers is as convincingly a drunken sailor as there ever was on or off the stage. But above all, there is Miss Eagels...
...insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed "Oh, rats!" Rachael Galpern became hysterical. First a doctor, then a nerve specialist was called. Her father collected $1,700 from his landlord for "injury to nervous system...
...apartment hotel, to be known as the Savoy Plaza, is to be erected in Manhattan on the site of the old Hotel Savoy on Fifth Ave. and 59th St. The acquisition of the Savoy site by the United States Realty & Improvement Co. makes it the world's greatest landlord, as its holdings now include the new Savoy Plaza, the Copley Plaza in Boston, the Plaza which faces the Pulitzer...
...more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life. It is right that each man should ask himself, landlord, farmer, and laborer, is this scheme just and fair...
...well-nigh charred, flung back his reeking sheets. To his delirious senses it seemed that the steam heat was singing and sputtering, that it gave off heat. He put his hand against it, rushed to the basement, found the furnace in full blast, brought suit next day against Landlord Lesch, charged disorderly conduct, conspiracy to drive him from his apartment...