Word: lumping
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...conception of a school janitor as a humble worker, patronized by teachers, bedeviled by pupils. In New York City a head janitor may make up to $64,500 per year, depending on his own acumen and parsimony. Instead of being paid a salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor LaGuardia: once, when the janitors threatened to disrupt his program of free school concerts by demanding...
...game hunter, a missionary, a detective, a brewer, a governor a milkman, a state supreme court justice, a ship cleaner, a special agent for federal bureau of internal revenue" (not James Cagney), "a weaver, a mayor, and a welfare director." Whether University Hall's failure to lump this matter with "a Y. M. C. A. director" was accidental or a reflection on Y. M. C. A.'s welfare capacity is not known...
Hallowed by at least four generations of profitable practice is the underwriting of big bond issues. Advantage to the borrowing corporation is the fact that it gets its money in a lump sum on a definite date irrespective of current market conditions. And the "spread" between the price the corporation receives for its bonds and the price the public pays is supposed to compensate the banker not only for his time & trouble but also for his risks...
...eight men 9,000 ft. above in the gleaming Pan American Clipper, the exuberant specks on the beach were less interesting than the little lump of land they hopped on. It was Wake Island, an insignificant pinprick on the map since 1796 and an uninhabited U. S. possession since 1899. Now Wake Island had become vastly important as the third stepping-stone in Pan American Airways' long strides across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded...
...Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with "Kay" Stammers whose fast left-handed drive has helped make her England's No. 3 player, who eats lump sugar during her matches and who, in the Kent Championship last June, won a love set from Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Arnold...