scrubwoman

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One day when he had asked her again if she had got the tickets, and then turned his face to the wall to cough, she said to herself, "_Good_-night--shirt But most of the discourse of my scrubwoman is cheerful.

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  • However, the old girl was too shopworn for further mischief and was spending her days of decline as a scrubwoman in the skyscraper From the Morning Eagle HE WAS HUNTING VAMPIRE Mrs. Lucille Murphy, who is employed nights in the building, shed the first light on the matter of the man in the chandelier. —  115 - The Fiery Menace
  • He was armed with a mop that he'd snatched from an astonished scrubwoman, and he stormed in whimpering that he was going to kill Gordon. —  Shorty McCabe on the Job
  • There are many who can visualize that scrubwoman, and who can place beside her as needing social aid the sewing-machine operator, the garment-finisher or the flower-maker in the tenement sweatshop, who can not see that the farm-house mother is often subjected to labor conditions that sap life and health and doom her children to weakness. —  The Family and it's Members
  • The scrubwoman, or the poverty-bound tenement worker may be proper subjects for public or private philanthropy; the farm-house mother is or should be the prime object of social justice and social engineering for ends of social well-being. —  The Family and it's Members
  • Mrs. Warmdollar was named scrubwoman, while her disheartened spouse devoted himself to strong drink, as though to color one's nose and fuddle one's wits were the great purposes of existence. —  The President A novel
 

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