Word: janitors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this barefaced attempt to pick the public's pocket. Altogether the affair is pictured as the most scandalous thing since the Tweed Ring...
...last of the final examinations are passed, text books that have mutely coached the student to success are due to find themselves neglected. Their owner is busily engaged in making plans for the summer vacation in which their presence could only be discordant. It is also doubtful whether the janitor or the "goodie" will desire to brush up on "Gov", "Ec", or even "Phil." What, then, is to be done with these former companions of midnight hours...
Students who intend to spread in dormitories must obtain written permission from the occupants of such rooms as are to be used. According to the regulations of the Bursar, students intending to use College rooms for Class Day spreads are required to notify the janitor before June 12, so that the necessary arrangements can be made, and must apply to the janitor before that date for basement rooms, if desired, for the use of caterers. Seniors will be held responsible for the observance of the rule forbidding punches or distilled liquors in College rooms, and those who use others rooms...
There was a small fire in the Rotch Laboratory Building last night shortly after 6 o'clock. The blaze was detected in a corner of the cellar by the janitor of the building, and the engines arrived before much damage had been done...
...dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart. But we all know that it is not often so. The storekeeper is uncertain with his deliveries "because of the war"; the factory charges higher prices for shoddy materials, the clerk is late to the office, the telephone or janitor service is poor "because of the war." It is such an excuse for slackness as slackness has not had in nearly two generations. Because a great burden is laid upon the nation, millions of people feel they can roll various private burdens off their shoulders by four words. The excuse often...