Word: janitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...janitor at the Audubon, Iowa, high school, A.E. ("Brick") Kness, used to watch mice with a hunter's eye. For a while he even allowed them to nibble contentedly in the lunchroom just so he could study their weaknesses. Brick Kness was not going to resort to easy or familiar solutions. This was the Roaring Twenties. When Americans did things right in those days, they invented something new to do it with...
Polk County District Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...