Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Georgi Dimitroff, Communist Party boss, was taking no chances. The Peace Treaty would limit the Bulgarian Army; the remnant must be men the Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...
Conibear read up on physics and experimented at night in his living room with a broom for an oar. He decided that the traditional Oxford style, in which oarsmen put their maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year...
...Rome loved him and laughed at him. He received exalted personages with his clothes turned inside out. He danced alone through the streets with his beard half shaved off, or strutted about carrying a huge bunch of broom which he pretended to sniff delightedly. Sometimes, in token of his humility, he would appear in public with a large blue cushion perched upon his head...