Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes close to preventing Paula from winning a conscientious young radical from Amherst. And it nearly gets Leonie involved in a degrading alliance with an unscrupulous psychiatrist who professes to be of the same breed as the "marauders" who amassed the Wyler fortune and hence the proper custodian for it. The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact." It makes no difference to him, he declares, "whether they prattle on full bellies or prattle...
...reward from a grateful Corporation for his interesting collection of goose-eggs assembled last fall, Coach Richard C. Harlow has been appointed custodian of birds' eggs and nests in the museum of Comparative Zoology...
...TIME "a publication of offensive scurrility directed against all manner of persons!" Graduating from Harvard with the Class of 1909, enormous Putzy just after the War saw his family's Manhattan art print shop, which they valued at $600,000, auctioned off by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian for $9,000. Returning embittered to the family seat near Munich, Dr. Hanfstaengl was attracted by Adolf Hitler at a time when the future Realmleader was often hounded by police. Repeatedly Hitler took refuge with the Hanfstaengls. After his rise to power, Dictator Hitler burdened Putzy with no great office...
Trying was a mild description of Mr. Hull's hours. The custodian of an arms embargo against Italy and Ethiopia and a brace of general neutrality proclamations had, as yet, no record of actual munitions being bootlegged to either belligerent. But U. S. motormakers, it was revealed, had already shipped 2,200 trucks and busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit...
Well primed was the Mayor last week when a representative of the United Parents Association appeared at City Hall to protest that school washrooms were shy on soap and towels. Blazed the Mayor: "Any time the Board of Education has the courage to cut out its rotten, dishonest custodian system, we'll be able to give the children what they need. Go to any principal and point out uncleanliness in a school and he'll turn pale and say 'My God, I can't help it. I have no power over the janitors.' I never...