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Cardigan's catalogue said that annual tuition (including board) would be $1,100 -and be sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands...
...must get an iron broom and sweep our party house clean of this garbage. The refusal to be worried about human beings ... is a malady which still ails a good many leaders of our party organizations. ... If you scratch these pseudo-moralists, you will find plenty of hypocrites and humbugs among them. You'll never cook your porridge with a lot of gravediggers like this...
Dick waited patiently for the cats to settle down. He was holding a buggy whip and a broom handle, and he had a kitchen chair in case one of them got tough and jumped him. A pitchfork might have been better, but these were his cats (and his life's investment) and he didn't want to scar them. He called to Fay Maloney, his assistant: "Looks like an easy deal...
Ernest I. Sly, venerable broom pusher over the Massachusetts Avenue cobbles, was heard to mutter that perhaps the honor of having the bridge named after alma mater might encourage Techmen to keep it clean. "Five minutes a day will keep the cobbles clean," he remarked sagely...
...Chief of State makes his own bed daily, cleans his room by sprinkling disinfectant and wielding a broom in wide circles. Once a day his wife, who lives in a hotel some 15 minutes distant, visits him, bringing his washing and mending. Pétain carefully folds his own shirts and stores them away in a closet. The rest of the time he spends studying English, reading or strolling, carefully guarded, in the courtyard. Occasionally he is permitted a visit from his attorney, Jacques Isorni...