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Spilling out of a Manhattan tenement onto a June-baked side street are all Mr. Rice's once-familiar exhibits-gossips, sluts, roughnecks, a dispossessed family, a jittery expectant father, the Negro janitor, the Italian music teacher, the Jewish law student, young Rose Maurrant whom he loves, and Rose's ill-mated parents-the mother who has taken a lover, the father who has taken to drink. Long brooding over the Maurrants, melodrama bursts upon them at last-with two quick revolver shots behind an open window...
...boxes were intact in Winthrop House after a 7:30 o'clock checkup last night, and the house janitor on duty declared that no robberies had been discovered. He recalled an Adams House felony several months ago, however, where the check was "lifted" without smashing...
...biddy began spending more time in his room and less as a part of the ghastly harem that always seemed to be wriggling around the janitor's office. He made a place for her tip in his budget and told himself he would leave it in the bathroom just to see if she over looked...
...Radcliffe A. A. did not reveal why it had chosen Acapulco as their year's goal. "Maybe they wanted to go sight-seeing," the harrassed gymnasium janitor suggested, as one Senior, disgruntled by a Sophomore victory, muttered: "I didn't want to go to old Mexico anyway...
...Chicago, where he was one of a group of lawyers who met regularly at luncheon. Mason feels, however, that breakfast is a much better time, because people are quieter in the early morning, hence more inclined to meditation than to small talk. All FTC workers, from head commissioner to janitor, are welcome; some make reservations two months in advance, rouse themselves an hour earlier than usual to attend...