Word: scrubwoman
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...aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova, until last week director of the New Dawn perfume & face powder factory...
...Harriet" was a big-hearted Negro who worked as a scrubwoman in Philadelphia's Homeopathic Hahnemann Medical College for years after the Civil War. Among her duties was cleaning up the room where young Dr. Rufus B. Weaver cut up cadavers to show medical students how the human body was constructed. "Harriet" doubtless heard Dr. Weaver declare many a time that the study of anatomy was the most interesting of all the medical sciences. He loved anatomy so profoundly that he would never practice therapeutics as long as he lived. He loved the subject so deeply that he examined...
Every member of President Paul von Hindenburg's household, from his bashful scrubwoman to his self-important State Secretary, sat down to lunch at one long table in the drawing room two days before Christmas. Beside pallid, big-jowled Old Paul sat his buxom, apple-cheeked typist. The flustered scrubwoman sat next to the President's handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table...
...being dropped. Doumer and Doumergue publicly shook hands, then retired into the Presidential drawing room and shut the door. Paul Doumer was born March 22, 1857, son of a railway gang foreman at Aurillac. His father died, and aged 14 he went to Paris where his mother did scrubwoman's work and such. He was apprenticed to a jeweler, graduated as an engraver of medals. By the time he was 21, Engraver Doumer had studied enough nights to be graduated at the University of Paris, became Professor Doumer of mathematics. His throat would not stand the strain of lecturing...
...their administrators that has accentuated the move to establish the new office. The number of employees has risen in recent years from 1200 to approximately 2500. The most recent trouble over the men and women engaged in the non-educational service of the University has been the now famous scrubwoman case which brought the University much unfavorable publicity...