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...Manhattan, one Stanley Podloudy, loiterer, forced Stanley Pietraszkiewitz, janitor, downstairs, tried to shove his head into a stove, broil him. Vexed, Stanley Pietraszkiewitz bit off Stanley Podloudy's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sandglasses | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Thurman, Iowa, David D. Rhode, janitor of the school, eloped with Helen Gardner, the principal. Janitor Rhode's wife succeeded to his job. Helen Gardner died of a fall downstairs in Scotts Bluff, Neb. Last week David Rhode returned to his wife and five children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

During the winter I happened to break one leg, with its adjacent rungs, of a black-and-gold chair of the type supplied to all dormitory rooms. I took the broken chair to the Janitor's Office, and forget about the matter until my term bill appeared with a charge for $5.68. I protested this unreasonable amount to the Bursar's Office, and received the following itemization: Carpenter stock, I left arm (it was actually a leg, but no matter)… $.60, I front rung $.07 (granted), I side rung $.07 (granted); Carpenter labor $3.00 (with the proper tools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "How Use Doth Breed a Habit in a Man" | 5/20/1932 | See Source »

...championship in the 147-lb. class. Flynn, a better boxer than most professionals, won his semi-final bout and then lay down to nap on a rubbing table while his trainer explained that Flynn was 22 years old and married, that he earned $60 a month as a janitor, that he had no intention of becoming a professional. Presently Flynn swung himself off the rubbing bench, walked out to the ring and retained his title in a three-round fight against a rough little San Francisco Italian named Andrew Bozzano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flynn, Feary & Friends | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

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