Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsal use of College buildings may be justified, but permitting exemptions for some and not for others don't quite make sense. The Glee Club, the Band, and the Orchestra use Sever and Sanders Theatre without charge, while everyone else must pay for the evening lighting, heating, and janitor service...
...trees. In the Italian view, a fancy title, like oil on a lettuce leaf, lends zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
Most of the privately endowed colleges in the East had a maid service until just before the war, when the general trend was to abolish the service in favor of having each student make his own bed and getting the janitor to clean the room daily and vacuuming one a week...
...curls all over her head. Her first song, about a blooming romance in a laundromat, was delivered in a saucy, off-key voice something like a boy soprano's. Then Elsa climbed on top of the grand piano to pitch a mildly off-color number called The Janitor's Boy. The audience liked some of Elsa's pitches, but they were a little letdown by the delivery: she made no effort to cozy up to the customers between numbers. Persian Room audiences have been trained on entertainers who glide around the ringside tables, wooing the patrons with...
Five years ago the Art Association held a similar meeting in Sever Hall, but without official sanction. Then a janitor broke in on the party unexpectedly, did a double take, and lit out for the Dean's office. An official of the club was subsequently suspended...