Word: janitress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Verne has been identified so long with an old hag in Sun-Up that it was hard to believe in her latest characterization, that of a decayed but kind-hearted actress named Duckie. This actress, once highly popular behind footlights, has become, through the re versals of circumstance, a janitress. But she continues doing many good turns every day, for which the recipients repay her badly...
...Brooklyn, a Mrs. Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge...
...cult to which the defendants belonged was proved to have flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, since its foundation by a concierge (janitress), Mme. Marie Mesmin, or "Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about...
...little grey-haired widow, Mrs. Bessie Ellinger, Janitress of three Manhattan tenements, heard loud cries in one of her hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew...