Word: landlordly
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...under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. The cast will be as follows: Major von Tellheim, a retired officer, Carl Emmerich. Minna von Barnhelm, Hedwig Lange. Franziska, her maid, Marie Eisenhut. Just, servant of the major, Franz Kierschner. Paul Werner, former sergeant to the major Otto Ottbert. Landlord, Max Haenseler. A Lady in mourning, Marie Kierschner. An Orderly, Hermann Korn. Riccaut de la Marliniere, Georg Baselt. Servant, Carl Fischer...
...prosperous officer in the army of Frederic the Great, has been discharged and reduced to poverty through the refusal of the military authorities to refund without investigation the advances made by him while in service. As a last means of securing money he is obliged to pledge to his landlord a ring which his betrothed, Minna von Barnhelm, a rich heiress of Saxony, had given to him. At the opening of the play Minna von Barnhelm in company with her maid, Franziska, has arrived at the inn and the landlord has not hesitated to deprive Tellhelm of his rooms...
...summing up, the Court says: "The distinction lies, it seems to us, between an occupancy which is for the private benefit and convenience of the officer and which is so regarded by the parties as in the ordinary case of landlord and tenant, and an occupancy where, although necessarily to some extent the relation of landlord and tenant enters into it, the dominant or principal matter of consideration is the effect of the occupancy in promoting the objects of the institution and upon the efficiency and influence of the officers as such and upon those whom the institution designs...
...wickedness; he has faults which would be inexcusable in older people, but they are naughtiness rather than wickedness. In the man, however, these faults show meanness and smallness. There is not a single sin which is not mean. Avarice shows a mean spirit in the relations between a miserly landlord and his tenants; the drunkard is mean in the neglect of his family. In short, committing sin shows the choice of what is petty, mean, and small in place of what is generous and grand...
...Cellier's comedy opera, "Dorothy," will be produced for one week at the Castle Square Theatre. This opera is a comparative stranger to theatre-goers, and its story is worth retelling. Dorothy, the daughter of a wealthy foxhunting squire, dons peasant dress and at the village inn serves the landlord's customers, and falls in love with a gentleman whose horse has lost a shoe. Dorothy is accompanied by a friend, who masquerades with her, and also falls in love with a customer. The two girls give their lovers two rings, which the lovers swear never to part with...