Word: broom
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...infant alligators a yard or so in length, transmitted in the ordinary run of business through the mail found life in a crate in an Ohio post-office somewhat tedious. They escaped and spent most of the rest of the day playing tag around the mail files and chewing broom sticks to whet their appetites. All of which led to their being reduced to the "harmless" stage with one of the few remaining broom-sticks wielded by a doughty mail clerk...
...travelers drain the pot of ale dry in spite of the efforts of their supposed host to get a swallow himself, was rendered purely for its farce values, and the very rich comedy in it wholly neglected. Above all, the incident where "Diggory" delivers a letter stuck in a broom by way of a salver is palpably out of place. Also the numerous soliloquies, despite their difficulty, might have been given, with more skill. Once started, however, the play runs well, and mounts steadily from the beginning to a very creditable height in the third act and thereafter...
...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...