Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bleak, truly, is the lot of any lavatory man, but bleaker still if he is a lavatory man employed by the U. S. Government. Nor are lavatory men alone in their exigency. Federal attendants of all sorts, guards in zoos and biological gardens, seneschals in museums and the gray-faced individuals of nameless profession who patrol at intervals the hollow echoing corridors of public libraries ? all are underpaid, all are overworked...
...have been pointed out to us as the fattest pilot of the lot and the easiest target for our infallible sharpshooters. Know, flying pig, if they do not get you, we have other means...
...fattest pilot of the lot...
This moderately comic idea was subjected to a stuffy exposition and never grew very hilarious. In fact, what with a lot of spiritless acting here and there, it never grew hilarious...
They were a footsore lot who had come by auto and special train, dusty and dirty, many carrying in the parade little black bags with their belongings; bundles of clothes and food bulged many robes; some carried civilian hats in their hands. And it was frightfully hot. There was an awful thirst upon them. Watermelon and ice cream cones were consumed ad infinitum from many a vendor...