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Word: kitchenbroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...generalized into one word, that word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Union | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

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