Word: jordans
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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...
Frightened by the glint in Joe Jordan's eye, Mae Jordan sought work, found none for a child so inexperienced and anemic as herself. Desperate, she begged odd jobs of baby tending, dish washing, floor scrubbing from residents in the apartment. One November day she sought her father radiant: "Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz want me to 'do' their apartment every day for $10 a month...
Shrewd, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz, partners, bachelors, garment merchants, stipulated a condition: Mae Jordan should not receive payment for doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
...water was from the River Jordan. The gold font had been conveyed from Windsor Castle. The royal organist and choir boys donned their crimson and gold robes at St. James's Palace before hastening over. The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
Engaged. Miss Florence Verstile Furlow, daughter of the late F. C. Furlow, President of the Otis Elevator Co.; to Ralph Edward ("Doc") Jordan, '22 captain of the Yale football team...