Word: broom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hungry, but hasn't any money, should he plant a garden, steal a pie, work for a meal, or get a permanent job?" "Is Italy shaped like a banana, boot, broom, or sausage?" were other queries...
...dust, and to dust he shall return" seems to be the motto of the janatorial department of the University. Yet the average undergraduate has little desire to hasten the process so thoughtfully provided by Providence. Hence the daily advent of the goody and her dust-provoking broom is a constant trial. He leaves each morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation...
Sparkling among the reforms for 1915-16 that ought to be seized and hoisted to a practical plane is that which calls for the substitution of electric vacuum cleaners for the brooms that have heretofore and hitherto been strangled in the grasp of the college goodies. A new broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner...
...pride of Oksgptgmfp is in fine fettle, and boldly challenges all comers. The numerous games including a broom and spade contest, "piff the piffles," and other innovations especially invented for this evening are in readiness. The fifteen piece band is playing "Tipperary" in its sleep, and the committee is with difficulty restraining itself from the enticements of the free liquid refreshments which have been bought in abundant quantities...