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Word: janitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage play of the same name, "My Sister Eileen" is a good impression of a hick's impression of New York. There are several other characters scattered throughout the picture: a dashing young executive, a dull young executive, a troup of Latin-American Naval Cadets, and an arty janitor, each in his place and doing wonders with a good story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...have Peabody turn my room into a cat-house," fumed Rooney as he fled modestly to the Eliot House janitor's office for refuge until his feline ledgers had been dispossessed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Pussycat Got That Ann Rutherford Hasn't Got? | 3/24/1943 | See Source »

...Majesty. In Boston, Judge Paul Swift of Barnstable asked the State legislature for a raise, explained that he was embarrassed whenever he had to give the courthouse janitor an order, because the janitor earned more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Welles predecessors may be partly due to the fact that it is the first he did not direct himself (director: Norman Foster) and that he left for South America before it was finished. When he saw the completed version, he exclaimed: "RKO must have let the janitor cut the picture," and insisted on writing and shooting a new ending. His revisions, unfortunately, only made the film more confusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Although the College's veteran janitor believes that the students still consume their scotch and soda with the customary gusto, they have lost a tride of the barbarism which exposed itself thirty years ago. He used always to see lines of women's intimate belongings strung out along lines from Little Block to posts on the other side of the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Years as College Janitor, Herbert Knew Lowell, Eliot | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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