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  • Brooks, owner of a large house called Greenstreet, at East Ham in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him.

    The Silence 2010

  • Population growth, a gradual firming of the labor market and a drop in the U.S. homeownership rate to 65% from its near-70% peak could generate about 4.5 million new renter households over the next five years, according to Greenstreet Advisors.

    Housing Gloom Doesn't Extend to Rentals Kelly Evans 2011

  • That level of demand "will far outstrip supply" through 2015, Greenstreet reckons, given the relatively low level of multifamily homebuilding in recent years.

    Housing Gloom Doesn't Extend to Rentals Kelly Evans 2011

  • It is a woefully overrated film, stodgily imprisoned in gloomy apartments and offices, running on wisecracks and a smart cast Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre supporting Humphrey Bogart.

    The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011

  • Everyone in the community, all 13 of them plus Geshe Stephen and Lama Katie and including their nearest neighbors, the former Forest and Fawn Greenstreet (now Dairo and Bodhi respectively), had an air horn.

    The Silence 2010

  • Late, I watched The Maltese Falcon (1941), which never fails to delight me, what with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet and all.

    Exit, Stage Left sovay 2009

  • "As we move from a world of falling inflation to one in which rising inflation is something investors should worry about, I see real estate playing a protective role," said John Lutzius , head of the European office of boutique research firm Greenstreet Advisors in London.

    Property Stocks May Gain From ECB Rate Rise William Boston 2011

  • How will any putative director cast this role, which calls for the bloated body of the chuckling Sydney Greenstreet with the soul of Ralph Fiennes who played a Nazi commandant in Schindler's List somewhere inside it?

    Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski – review 2011

  • The most famous usage of this defense was in Casablanca, where Senor Ferrari (Sidney Greenstreet) says to Laszlo, about the letters of credit: I observe that in one respect you are a very fortunate man, Monsieur.

    The Sydney Greenstreet Defense eddvick 2009

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