Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
...Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...
...coughing down the hills. Net result of these clues: the no-longer-so-nervous reader forms the opinion that Kenneth Patchen is a poeticule. Twelve years ago Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first book of "poetry" (The Janitor's Boy) when she was 10. Thereafter, in fairly rapid succession, she wrote and published three more books of verse, a stilted novel. An unknown benefactor offered to send her abroad and put her through college if she would not publish anything more until after graduation. Last week...
Never in the history of Wigglesworth, according to the janitor, have rotting corpses been found in the mail boxes. For the third time this week, the decayed remnants of crows, geese, and other fowl have been left in a mail box in J-entry...
Recent tragedies brought about by drinking at that university are undoubtedly responsible for the attitude of the paper. One student fell out of a window during a drinking bout and was killed, and another was convicted (and subsequently expelled) for seriously beating a dormitory janitor while under the influence of liquor...