Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Foy, the museum's head janitor, has a different story. "It stinks," he declares. "Got so we couldn't work around it. Then they moved it up here. When you open the window you can...See what I mean...
...contestants had been neck & neck during most of their runoff campaign. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), black-haired Lyndon Johnson was the more dramatic of the two. At 40, he was a seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only...
With the help of two sons and a daughter, all of whom work for him, Publisher Hoiles runs his chain from Santa Ana. He shouts his letters and columns to a long-suffering secretary, passes out pamphlets on Christ and taxes to all comers, harangues editors, reporters and the janitor. But he confines his independent opinions to his signed column. Says he: "The news columns don't belong to us. We're just like stenographers...
...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...