Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...
Cicero's Wind. A year and a half after they were married, Hubert set out to fulfill the dream. Back at the University of Minnesota, Muriel got a job as a typist, Hubert got a part-time drugstore job, worked as a janitor to help pay their rent...
...office, piled high with books and papers, is more cluttered than William Allen White's used to be at another famed Gazette, in Emporia. Once a reporter asked for a typewriter he had seen buried in the office, and Heiskell crustily denied that it was there. A janitor dug in and found not one machine but six. "If they'd dug a little deeper," cracked a newsman, "they'd probably have found a dead reporter...
...anonymously lit fire started at 11:30 p.m., drawing heads from all the windows in the yard and screams of delight from the occupants. Lowell House Janitor A1 Roach hurried to the scene with a bucket and the fire died in 15 minutes without any damage resulting...
...order to ease pressure on students who have to return reserve books by 9 a.m., Metcalf said that arrangements can be made whereby books are left at the House janitor's office, and for a slight fee returned to the library by 9 a.m. the next morning...