All 14 Uses of
superintendent
in
Arrowsmith
- When he lifted his head to listen, his right eyebrow, slightly higher than the left, rose and quivered in his characteristic expression of energy, of independence, and a hint that he could fight, a look of impertinent inquiry which had been known to annoy his teachers and the Sunday School superintendent.†
Chpt 1
- The damn' superintendent of nurses put me at scrubbing, and we aren't ever SUPPOSED to scrub floors, because she caught me smoking a cigarette.†
Chpt 6 *
- She hinted, with debonair regret, that she was not too popular with the superintendent of nurses; she meant to be good but somehow she was always dragged into rebellions connected with midnight fudge or elopements.†
Chpt 6
- At the Zenith General Hospital he got the night superintendent, and the night Superintendent was a man frosty and suspicious.†
Chpt 6
- At the Zenith General Hospital he got the night superintendent, and the night Superintendent was a man frosty and suspicious.†
Chpt 6
- Martin checked the "I'll damn' soon tell you who I am!" which was his natural reaction, and explained that he was speaking for Leora's invalid grand-aunt, that the poor old lady was very low, and if the night superintendent cared to take upon himself the murder of a blameless gentlewoman— When Leora came to the telephone he said quickly, and soberly now, feeling as though he had come from the menace of thronging strangers into the security of her presence: "Leora?†
Chpt 6
- They forgot that the superintendent of nurses might dreadfully come bursting in; they forgot that Angus was waiting.†
Chpt 7
- The firm was controlled by a Live Wire who had once been a county superintendent of schools.†
Chpt 12
- Only I warn you: when you become the Sunday School superintendent, you needn't expect me to play the organ and smile at the cute jokes you make about Willy's not learning his Golden Text.†
Chpt 16
- Dr. Woestijne of Vanderheide's Grove acted in spare time as Superintendent of Health for Crynssen County, but the office was not well paid and it did not greatly interest him.†
Chpt 18
- He was exposed as the founder of the first Rotary Club in Iowa; superintendent of the Jonathan Edwards Congregational Sunday School of Nautilus; president of the Moccasin Ski and Hiking Club, of the West Side Bowling Club, and the 1912 Bull Moose and Roosevelt Club; organizer and cheerleader of a Joint Picnic of the Woodmen, Moose, Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Turnverein, Knights of Columbus, B'nai Brith, and the Y.M.C.A.; and winner of the prizes both for reciting the largest number of…†
Chpt 19
- What do I care how much Pickerbaugh gases before conventions of Sunday School superintendents and other morons, as long as he lets me do my work in the lab and dairy inspection?†
Chpt 19
- "Meet Ol' Doe Almus Pickerbaugh, a he-man whom Chum Frink has hailed as 'the two-fisted, fighting poet doc,' a scientist who puts his remarkable discoveries right over third base, yet who, as a reg'lar old-fashioned Sunday-school superintendent, rebukes the atheistic so-called scientists that are menacing the foundations of our religion and liberties by their smart-aleck cracks at everything that is noble and improving," chanted the chronicler.†
Chpt 22
- Or no—the floors are swept by women hired by the superintendent of the building, nicht wahr?†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(superintendent) a person who directs and manages an organization -- such as a school district
or:
a caretaker of a building -- such as an apartment building