Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snowball claims that he is "of the old school." Colonel Apted and Max Keezer were his contemporaries. The only ones left are Jimmy O'Brien (Janitor of Claverly) and Nappy, the taxi driver. But he still overflows with biblical quotations, preaches powerful sermons against race discrimination while picking up clothes to press, mixes his famous "Green Dragon" punch, manages the "Boston Tigers," and is private caretaker, weather-discusser, and day-starter for Professor Copeland. His main ambition is to be a Cabinet Minister; his main contention that "you can always wake a Harvard man with music...
...will probably to given in Agassiz Theater at Radcliffe which the Idler Club can use without charge. Though the stage is small it is more useable than Sanders Theater where the Dramatic Club has given its plays for the last two years, paying high prices for heat, light and janitor. Miss Stohl expects to have the stage built out enough to give sufficient room for a large production...
...Medical College, furnished it with kitchen tables and a few old microscopes. For specimens, he "skipped through the marshes" after frogs, once hauled back a croaking load on a sleeping car. From frogs he promoted his class to cadavers. So elegant was his dissecting and embalming that his Negro janitor mailed handbills to undertakers, offering to teach them Dr. Welch's secrets...
Conductor Paige chose his 75 Young Americans from 2,000 applicants. Their ages range from 17 to 26, average under 21. His tuba player was a janitor; a trombonist, a truck driver; a violinist, a housemaid; the concertmaster, a welterweight boxer. Songster for the Young Americans is Carolyn Cromwell, redhaired, 19-year-old Kansan. The orchestra has already made its first recordings; when RCA Victor's Music Director Charles O'Connell heard the Young Americans rehearsing, he put them under five-year contract. Because a radio sponsor is eyeing them, the Young Americans have made only one concert...
...trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding...