laundryman

• “The laundryman was a kind, wise old fellow, who paid his girls well, looked out for them, and gave them a good home.”

  My Antonia

• “The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.”

  Chapter 34

• “Born in 1905 in Los Angeles, Wong's father was a Chinese laundryman whose desire for his daughter to get married and settle down was eclipsed by her determination to gain fame and fortune as an actress.”

  The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins)

• “He could have quit his ship 10 minutes before the Chinese laundryman took the plunge and the outcome would have been neither better nor worse.”

  The Guardian: Why must a captain never leave a sinking ship?

• “Nonetheless, Hart Dyke stayed aboard the Coventry until the deck stood at a steep angle to the sea and everyone else had jumped overboard, including a Chinese laundryman who couldn't swim.”

  The Guardian: Why must a captain never leave a sinking ship?

• “Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman.”

  Chapter 46

• “The succeeding minute he had been bothered by the ex-laundryman's presence and by the compulsion of conversation.”

  Chapter 45

• “Unskilled labour is the first to feel the slackness of hard times, and I had no trades save those of sailor and laundryman.”

  Chapter 25

• “My name's Dawson, Joe Dawson, an 'I'm tryin' to scare up a laundryman.”

  Chapter 16

• “It softened the blow of his having been a laundryman, and though she could not understand a line of it, she knew that every line of it was great.”

  Chapter 43

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