Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, one Joe Jordan, apartment-house janitor, said to his lean-ribbed daughter Mae, last September: "You git some money! You're 14 now. You work or you don't eat here...
...have told Natalia that if she writes another novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...Books will reach Cambridge Thursday night and be ready for distribution on Friday. The janitor's room in either Gore or Standish Hall will be taken over for the delivery of books to subscribers during the day and then a large number of copies will go on sale at the Jubilee that night. A novelty which the Committee has instituted this year is the engraving of the names of certain subscribers in their books. The name of each member of the Freshman Executive Committee, the Red Book Committee, and the Dormitory Committees will be engraved in gold letters...
...through the front door, which was watched from the moment the intruder left Room 43, it is feared that he may still be lurking somewhere in the interior of Matthews Hall. Several rooms which are occupied by students who were away last night have not yet been entered. The janitor had gone home at the time of the hold-up and no pass keys could be secured. The belief that the fugitive ducked into some unlocked room and snapped the lock after him was still rife among many of the occupants of Matthews late last night...
...through the shades and other extraneous hangings of my mental cameras I did for a moment see light. And revealed by the light was, if not one of nature's noblemen, at least a child artist worthy to write another "Janitor's Boy". For out in Revere where thrills are thunderbolts and in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns foolish Lillian Sidney Serota has arisen to proclaim her muse. In a recent edition of the Boston Traveller--to use the style affected by my friends in the next column--Lillian does her stuff, to the extent...