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.
Sentence Examples. They are written in the form of dialogues, and in the two last the interlocutors are King Charles and Alcuin. Elizabethan period; a slight suggestion sends the interlocutors off on the discussion of current reforms in church and state and society. The interlocutors must in truth render an account under the stimulus of organized heckling from their equals or superiors in de.bating ability. In virtue of the common-stock of opinion among the interlocutors and their potentially controlling audience, this process was more valuable than appears on the face of things.