Word: charwoman
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...years Londoners have watched the cement-arc slowly growing across the river (see cut). The finished job, 80 ft. wide, with five 240-ft. spans in gleaming Portland stone, looked so fresh and handsome against their war-and weather-battered city that it seemed, like a lorgnette on a charwoman, uncomfortably elegant. The bridge's designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, sharing the public view, wistfully observed: "The chief feature is the underside...
Then there were the Germans. There was Gauleiter Conradi who had the head of a later Antonine on a body paralyzed from the waist down. He seldom got out of bed, but he knew everything and was dreaded by all Germans from the German minister to the charwoman at the legation -"the only difference being that the minister was more afraid than the charwoman...
...signed up as charwoman in a workers' barracks...
...publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman ($9,000), who "joined" last year by contributing $2 to a fund for Loyalist Spain. A few did not even know that they were...
...smoking room of an ocean liner, some of them not sure why they have embarked, others puzzled about their destination until one of them grasps the fact that they are all dead. Still vivid, if over-typical, are the people themselves: the drunkard (Bramwell Fletcher), the charwoman (Laurette Taylor), the clergyman, the snob, the businessman, the young couple who have killed themselves for love. Still troubling are these people's confusions, hopes and fears as the voyage nears its end and the image of "the Examiner" haunts their minds...