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Word: janitress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned him. he was immediately surrounded by friends and neighbors, was buying round after round of drinks. Hours later he remembered he had not paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Anonymous Millionaires | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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