Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon, in Boston, it was discovered that one William W. Ryan, janitor of a printing plant, self-styled "Organizer and President of the World League of Cities," had sent invitations, not only to cities in Russia, but to hundreds of cities in the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, China, Japan, India. All of these invitations were worthless...
...ignores the havoc wrought by time and neglect. Such lavishness may at first appear too Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
...Berkeley, Calif., near the Le-Conte School, a .38-calibre revolver cartridge lay on the turf, unnoticed. The sun shone, grass sprouted and along came John Haggerty, school janitor, steering a mowing machine. Blam! Janitor Haggerty cried "YOW!" tottered from his mower bleeding from a bullet-grazed forehead...
...merit. "Only a Rose" and "The Song of the Vagabonds" are especially good so good, in fact, that the parsimonious reviewer parted with 75 cents for a phonograph record of the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages. And so swarshbuckling did he become that he drove the unappreciative janitor from his rooms with a snarl of "Dog, knave, back to your kennil" two hours after the play was over...
...What do them papers mean by referring a me as a squeaky piccolo player, demanded Bob lampoon indignantly. Bob further expressed disgust at the misconstruction of his reception. The morning papers stated that lamp's diminutive janitor was greeted by a shower of rotaries dairy products and gin battles. This was a bit of false in formation bitterly resented by Bob "Why I was the big act," he said in defense, and the fellows only threw money...