Word: charwomen
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...Democratic member was otherwise occupied, Congressman Hamlin was named the Committee's chairman. It was the first time in House history that a first-termer had been honored with a committee chairmanship, but the Gentleman from Maine did not rejoice. All one day last week eight large Negro charwomen toiled to prepare for him the House Office Building suite of the Memorials Committee chairman. But in his old office Congressman Hamlin mourned: "I just got the cockroaches cleaned out of this office and now I've got to move into another and fight 'em there...
...what is eventually to be the Museum's Great Hall of Fossils. "This is the Conference, miss," said the man respectfully. "Right there His Majesty the King stood when he opened this Conference of 66 nations." Princess Ingrid saw only rows of empty seats and three charwomen dusting them off. "But where is the Conference?" she cried. "Surely there is more to see than this!" Next day, as the Conference quietly disintegrated rather than adjourned, there was even less to see. White-mustached Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung had hopped into a plane and gone back to Rome. Knife...
...some speculation. Beginning with Archaeology and the Classics, it continues by way of church History to Folk Lore, Legends and Superstition. What puzzled the Vagabond was which end was the top and which the bottom. While he was still wondering the man who washes the floors (for the charwomen are long since departed) came and liberated...
Upon learning that action had already been taken to place the charwomen in positions around the college buildings, or in jobs similar to the work in the library, the ladies left for home, but not before several Boston newspaper photographers had taken pictures of the group...
...Barcaldine history is then exposed in a series of flashbacks-an accidental meeting at an exposition in the century's early years, a wedding in a registry office with two charwomen as witnesses. Years later their only daughter gives herself to a married man who lives in the flat below and dies in childbirth. Barcaldine faces a bankruptcy court. But always there are subtle filaments which bind man and wife -"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown...