Slumlord Law and Legal Definition. A slumlord is an unscrupulous landlord who milks a property without concern for tenants, neighborhoods or their own long term interests. Slumlords overcharge for property in poor neighborhoods that is kept in poor repair and allowed to deteriorate. Some indicators of property run by a slumlord include number of police calls, and city and county code violations on the properties.  3.
The tree branches are like the bare bones of an old skeleton rattling in a fierce, cold wind. Tonight, a feud that has lasted generations will end violently, and permanently. That's the dramatic set up for the short story The Interlopers by the British writer H.H. Munro, who wrote under the pen name Saki. Through a couple of ironic twists, the story explores the foolishness in carrying hatred to the extreme and reveals how powerless we are against the forces of nature.
Many Cargoes was the W.W. Jacobs first collection of short stories in 1896. In 1897, The Skipper's Wooing was written and in 1898 Jacobs wrote another collection of stories, Sea Urchins. By 1899 Jacobs was confident enough to resign from the civil service to devote his full time to writing.