Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most schools, bland, rawboned Frank P. Nagel, 53, would be known as the janitor. But in Hadley Technical High School, St. Louis, by virtue of a resolution of the school board, he has been known as a custodian. Last week the citizens of St. Louis made Janitor Nagel another kind of custodian: he was elected a member of the city board of education...
Custodian Nagel, who because of regulations must resign his $159.50 a month janitor's job, considers himself as well qualified for his new post as the next man-perhaps a little better, "because of my long service in the school system. I've worked for the board for 28 years and I know how they do things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked...
This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added...
...reason. The hero, Billy Bigelow, having committed suicide, is led off by two unidentified gentlemen in tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning to earth for a day to cheer up his family...
...that he's finally learned to say "about" and "come," Tom Wileaux seems destined for certain success in the social world. Spearling of carcers, Abe Zeleznik could, as someone so quaintly said, in a chit for the janitor's jab if he stayed much longer after Full Studies and Management...