Word: janitress
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Take the candy trade. A janitress at a food store studied the tastes of sweet-toothed small fry, concluded that what they liked most were toy-shaped confections. She went home, out of sugared batter molded a swan with raisin eyes, baked it, and promptly sold it to a schoolboy for 2 rubles. Encouraged, she turned more and more batter into dough, spawned a swarm of home bakeries among women in the Moscow suburb of Stolbovaya. Was such initiative encouraged? Moskovskaya Pravda urged the bureaucrats of the "Red Front" candy factory to undercut these "unsanitary private confectioners" by mass-producing...
...ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned him. he was immediately surrounded by friends and neighbors, was buying round after round of drinks. Hours later he remembered he had not paid...
...Verne has been identified so long with an old hag in Sun-Up that it was hard to believe in her latest characterization, that of a decayed but kind-hearted actress named Duckie. This actress, once highly popular behind footlights, has become, through the re versals of circumstance, a janitress. But she continues doing many good turns every day, for which the recipients repay her badly...
...Brooklyn, a Mrs. Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge...
...cult to which the defendants belonged was proved to have flourished for 21 years at Bordeaux, since its foundation by a concierge (janitress), Mme. Marie Mesmin, or "Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about...