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Depressed by Esther's marriage, Meyer goes to a call house with Margot, Riverside Drive street walker. Both become very drunk. Madame Mina of the call house finds Meyer is a lawyer. Says Madame Mina: "Downstairs is the janitor woman, a widow. She's got one girl, only 16. She's been away for four days. She was with the iceman's girl. All evening the mother was after Jennie to tell where she's been and what she has been doing. A millionaire. . . . You know the reformer. . . .Yes, that's the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...walk to the post-office for their insured mail. This is the substance of a dictum just announced by C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Care-Takers of the University. On account of complaints which have been made of numerous lost letters and parcels, Mr. Apted has decreed that no janitor nor caretaker will hereafter be allowed to sign for registered letters and insured packages, with the result that students in College Dormitories will have to call at the post-office for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSURED MAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED AT DORMITORIES | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

Appleton Chapel very seldom seems too small for its congregation; more frequently, at morning chapel in particular, the visiting preacher brings light to the janitor, a decimated choir, and perhaps several freshman and graduate students to whom the geography of the Yard is still strange. There are times, however, when the Chapel refuses to hold the crowd of students which press into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A UNIVERSITY CHAPEL | 12/11/1923 | See Source »

...immediate investigation by a CRIMSON reporter after the class was dismissed traced the disturbance to the cellar, but closed doors and barred windows prevented any startling discoveries. The janitor was nowhere to be found and as yet the prohibition authorities have made no investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAGO AND KITTREDGE BOW TO "SPARROW" IN NOISY DEBATE | 10/30/1923 | See Source »

...moving, at a specified price for each piece of furniture. The amount of work to be done would make such a contract profitable, and would reduce greatly the cost to the individual student. And the moving could be charge on the term bill on the report of the hall janitor, just as readily as the telephone and electric light bills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WE MOVE ANYTHING" | 10/13/1923 | See Source »

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