Word: postman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, N. Y., caught dumping mail into an incinerator, Postman Henry M. Briggs, 48, protested: "My feet hurt me and I had a kidney ailment...
Seventeen and one-half minutes ahead of the average hour of breakage this week, the mail box in the Information Office of University Hall was handed in part to Miss Piscope Thursday morning by the postman...
...method of leaving mail in the box is the same as in an incinerator. The postman was undoubtedly startled when the entire movable part of the box, including the mechanism for keeping strangers' arms out, came off en masse. But he was not to be daunted by what he thought was a new device of the Maintenance Department, and handed it to Miss Piscopo with a man-of-the world expression, saying, "You'd better keep this where people can't take...
...Freshman, held deep in thrall by a sweet young Vassarline, awaited high in hope a much-promised Valentine package. When the postman came, however, he was at the movies. But his roommates and friends saw their duty and did not flinch to do it. They signed the receipt, opened the box, and substituted four cakes of Lifebouy Soap for the contents previously therein...
Among the first victims of this device, however, was the Postman. In fact on Tuesday he dumped the mail outside in despair. Apparently he was roundly sounded for this, because yesterday morning, with an unusually large load, be tackled the jig-saw brain-child of the M. D. again...