Word: scrubwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Class of '31's junior year, the only College issue that received much notice was the scrubwoman scandal, which wasn't resolved until about a year later. The scandal broke just two days after the Soldiers Field Locker Building was completely destroyed in a three-alarm fire, after which Clarence Dillon '05 offered funds for a new field house. Then on 17 January 1930, Boston papers revealed that 20 cleaning women in Widener had been dis- charged by the University. Apparently their salaries were not up to the legal minimum wage, and the University was unwilling to raise...
...since ten in the morning, and it was now seven at night and the flannels were beginning to lose their press. The office building had long since closed, so whenever footsteps were heard everybody tensed, because it might be the man with the decision. Usually it was just a scrubwoman. Once all the pin-stripes passed by, and everyone tensed just a little more but they were only going to the men's room. None of the flannels went to the men's room while the pin-stripes were in there...
...actual count, this cab driver (or his female counterpart, an anonymous scrubwoman) has been quoted 34 times in the past six months. He never yet has failed to comprehend both the broad picture and the significant detail behind each story, and his succinct wisdom is beautifully quotable. I haven't been able to figure out his nationality. Sometimes he is a shrugging Frenchman, frequently a shrewd but likable Cockney. In the Nov. 12 issue he is an analytical Swede ("the only thing that puzzles me is how could a simple Navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets...
...example, than your writer. In 490 words, your writer missed this double-pointed puzzle. Not so the cab driver. In two simple sentences, the cabbie got right down amongst the ribs and started probing the heart of the matter. He does it every time, and so does the scrubwoman...