street-cleaner

If the Peter Principle were true, George Bush and Bill Kristol would be the street-cleaner and dogcatcher in Crawford, Texas.

Balloon Juice » 2007 » December 2007

Dear little marabout, how useful you would be in the village, sweeping the streets, cleaning up the refuse, advance-guard of the street-cleaner with his, "Now then, everything into the gutter."

The Curly-Haired Hen Auguste Vimar

Shortly afterward someone invents a new dance, or imports it from Spanish America, and there is hardly time to snap one's finger before we are all dancing, grandparents and children, the cook in the kitchen and the street-cleaner on the boulevard.

A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

I don't want to be walking along Broadway and come on you suddenly as a street-cleaner.

The Adventures of Sally 1928

It must be a greater honor to be a street-cleaner and citizen of this Reich than a king in a foreign state.

Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

No human street-cleaner could ever excel their work.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

However, the street-cleaner is beginning to appear in some of the English cities.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921

“Does that man take the broom and sweep a little for the street-cleaner when he meets her?” he asked, after a brief period for reflection.

A Woman's Will Anne Warner 1891

While he used to go to work in "Tibetan Indian clothes, cowboy outfits, a baseball uniform one season, often street-cleaner jumpsuits and things like that," he said, he has altered his look in the last several months to wearing white L. L. Bean oxford shirts and Levi's 501s every day.

NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2011

While he used to go to work in "Tibetan Indian clothes, cowboy outfits, a baseball uniform one season, often street-cleaner jumpsuits and things like that," he said, he has altered his look in the last several months to wearing white L. L. Bean oxford shirts and Levi's 501s every day.

NYT > Global Home By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2011