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Word get through to the outside and after 20 minutes had passed, a smooth fingered janitor picked the lock and led the sheep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholarly Bellboys Found in Library, Chained to Studies | 1/23/1951 | See Source »

...break out of his narrow life: "Let us be great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures, he set out to write what he called the "great American novel­highbrow and realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: SINCLAIR LEWIS: 1885-1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...weeks ago a retired janitor named Albert H. Grimes was slowly starving to death in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. A cancerous growth in his esophagus had blocked off the passageway from his mouth to his stomach. He could eat no solids, and only a thin trickle of liquid was getting through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Lane | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...offer, which defrays all heating, lighting, and janitor service expenses incurred until 11 p.m., was made retroactive to cover Thursday's H.T.G. dress rehearsal. The plan is extended to cover both Harvard and Radcliffe groups for either the Fogg or the Busch-Reisinger Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Cancels Actors' Dress Rehearsal Fee | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inequality | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

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