Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money...
Perhaps there is a weakness in the Harvard man as a democrat, by a repressed desire for the attentions of body servants. The Yale Toaster guaranteed not to burn the bread, realized it when he said that a Harvard man never sees his janitor except when he comes home in the morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor...
...cocked his feet on his desk, indicating that the audience was at a close. My last view of the Master, as he has been called by the janitor of Randolph Hall, was of him gazing up at the feet passing by his window seeing . . . who knows what...
Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
...bevy of wastrels is not to be found, or a more hospitable. Many interesting points of contrast between them and us are immediately apparent. Impervious to the depressing influences of democracy, the Cambridge helots are obsequious. In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's room-mate. But the Harvard man never sees his janitor, save when he comes home in the morning and glimpses him at work on his shoes...