Word: watchman
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...candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax. But Rowling also names the Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, evidently hoping that a few adult readers will remember that Argus, in Greek mythology, was a watchman with eyes all over his body. And even if no one else picks up the reference, it's the sort of touch that can prompt an author's inward smile...
...wizards of the Boston media, and they enjoy one another's wit almost as much as they enjoy cutting in with a bon mot of their own. It's an invigorating workout just to keep up with them, and Sher presides with the indulgence of a genial night watchman in the Mensa wing at Bedlam...
...Sailors--there's a world of sexy waywardness in those spitcurl bangs alone--the people are as weighty and immemorial as Egyptian temple statues. And even when he made a picture in full daylit motion, like Kiss on Swing at a Street Fair, he's still Brassai the night watchman. He manages to catch his sunlit lovers at the very moment that they kiss in the shadows...
REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group...
Still, the lengendary folkster harbors some fond memories: his first-year English teacher, nights spent waiting, with the other six boys who lived in rooms above the Union, for the watchman to make his rounds so they could sneak down and get some ice cream--and feeling a bit guilty until, one night, they encountered the watchman having a taste as well...