Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good, that politics here is kept on a high plane of dignity and decorum. . . . On the contrary, politics, in our cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing his chauffeur and the janitor of a public hall and no one else the other night. . . . Today the Canadian political audience looks like ... a cargo of dead haddock. The statesman gazing into these cold, unblinking eyes ... is frightened to say anything he would not repeat in church...
...last week the school janitor went down to the basement to rinse his mop, found windows smashed, wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...
Next day, the janitor smelled smoke, rushed down to the basement to find a pile of paper blazing. Yellow Pants went bounding up the stairs. Quickly dousing the fire, the janitor followed. Several boys were already in hot pursuit. Through the first floor and up to the second, more & more pupils joined the chase until the whole school was in an uproar. This time they thought they had him. But almost before their eyes he vanished again...
...heard that cry in Leipzig last week expressed in just those words. The janitor of an apartment house which stood alone in a street of utter wreckage buttonholed me, shook his fist in my face and cried: 'You must tell your people how we've been lied to and betrayed! Every day we see it more and more! Every day we have more and more proof of how those men have ruined us! And they're still fighting, letting us be killed-they'd drag our whole country down to death with them if they could...
...gaunt Parisian, gone five years, hurried unannounced to his home. He was too spent to climb the five flights to his door, so the janitor went up to tell his wife the good news. When she came down, her husband lay dead of a heart attack...