Word: garbageman
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Kents' purchasing power is high. One diplomat gets excellent refuse removal service for a year by tipping the garbageman with Kents. When a resident foreigner's Rumanian maid asked her employer for a few packs of Kents, she explained that her daughter was preparing to take college entrance exams; the cigarettes might serve to temper the severity of the examiner...
...saving them." He is highly critical of the city government. "What ails New York is not what they say ails New York. It's not that they're too generous to the poor--they're too generous to the wealthy. In the wealthy, I include a New York City garbageman, who makes a lot more than the average American makes...
...blocks and helped them build a community center. Steve Trott, 21, tall, handsome, president of the fraternity (a local one called EQV), shoots golf in the low 705. Fluent in French and Spanish, he is the son of an executive in the overseas division of Procter & Gamble. A Mexican garbageman taught him how to play the guitar...
Gaslights! The first thing James Ryan wanted to be was a garbageman, the second thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...
Roses & Romance. As educational director, the Professor also edited the garbageman's house organ, The Hired Broom, wrote inspiring editorials ("Out of Garbage There Grows a Rose"), so enthralled his readers with the feeling for the romance of garbage that one collector re-christened his wagon Egabrag, hardly less appealing when spelled backwards...