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Neither Col. Charles A. Apted '06, chief of the Yard Police, nor Hugh Livingstone, janitor of the building could offer any explanation of the failure of the new clapper which replaced the one stolen in April, 1932. Livingstone stated that he had been moving tables during the afternoon and would not have noticed whether the clock struck or not. He said that he had not noticed anything amiss in the morning which might indicate that vandals had again entered the building and reified it of its useful possession...
Most striking evidence of this return to form was the behavior of Senator Wagner of New York. Twenty-five years ago Robert Wagner, son of a German janitor in Manhattan, served in the New York Legislature with Franklin Roosevelt, aristocratic scion of an old Dutch family. Together they fought for liberal social legislation, became fast friends. "Bob" Wagner went on to the Senate while "Frank" Roosevelt was in training for the Presidency at Albany as Governor. Last year Senator Wagner served as chief advocate at the Capitol of President Roosevelt's New Deal for labor. Last week Senator Wagner...
...gets the impression he has a very slack maid, and he removes his glove and writes on the walls and windows in the dust "D-I-R-T." Well, he doesn't understand, so he, the over-neat boy, goes to the janitor and complains on his maid with the result she is either transferred or fired. Now I tell you this so that you may understand...
...cried the exasperated referee. Thereupon he made startling news for New Yorkers by refusing to grant a divorce on what laymen have come to consider standard evidence in such cases, by packing Mrs. Wright off to get sounder evidence from moving men, the raided apartment house's tenants, janitor and elevator...
...Though Vridar's crazy jealousy and torturing restlessness seldom slept, though he tried to trick her into deceiving him, left her for many women and any book, she was faithful to him in her fashion. Vridar went to the University of Chicago, worked his way by slaving as janitor of an apartment building, tried vainly to find the right answer to his life in books, in the queer characters he ran up against, in "platonic"' friendships with women students. Finally he sent for Neloa. But by now their marriage was too near the rocks. When he told Neloa...