Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor. He tried selling...
...upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion...
Bohrod, 27, Chicago-born son of a poor grocer and janitor, is demure, hardworking, blond. He worked as scorecard seller at the Chicago Cubs' ball park, advertising art apprentice, broker's clerk, printer's paper-jogger. Without any of the intellectual and artistic pretensions of Schwartz, he has won four Institute prizes...
...Ottilie Stufmann. daughter of a university professor, told George Umbach last year she would marry him. He left for the U. S. to make his fortune, found no job. Last September Ottilie followed him to Manhattan, married him. George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged...
...Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed his name to No. 2796 on the North Bergen (N. J.) relief rolls last year. By unexpectedly knocking out a respectable opponent in a preliminary to the fight in which Max Baer knocked...