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We see the foreman all the time, but never the owner.†
p. 25.3
Sunny asked, which probably meant "What's a foreman?"†
p. 25.4
"A foreman," Klaus explained, "is somebody who supervises workers.†
p. 25.4
He's the worst foreman the world has ever seen!†
p. 25.7
The guy we used to have, Foreman Firstein, was O.K. But last week he stopped showing up.†
p. 25.9
The man who replaced him, Foreman Flacutono, is very mean.†
p. 26.1
They thought of doing hard work in the lumbermill, getting sawdust all over them and being bossed around by Foreman Flacutono.†
p. 27.6
If you wake up to the sound of church bells, and find yourself in a fairly big regular bed, with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of hot tea and toast on a plate, you will know that your day will be O.K. And if you wake up to the sound of somebody banging two metal pots together, and find yourself in a small bunk bed, with a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all, you will know that your day will be horrid.†
p. 30.2
But never in their most uneasy dreams did they expect the cacophony—a word which here means "the sound of two metal pots being banged together by a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all"— that awoke them.†
p. 30.7
"Get up, you lazy, smelly things!" cried the foreman in an odd-sounding voice.†
p. 30.9
And good morning, Foreman Flacutono.†
p. 31.4
Foreman Flacutono, this is Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire.†
p. 31.5
"I heard we'd have some new workers," the foreman said, dropping the pots to the floor with a clatter, "but nobody told me they'd be midgets."†
p. 31.7
Foreman Flacutono said in his muffled voice, walking over to the orphans' bunk.†
p. 31.9
But once they got a good look at Foreman Flacutono they wanted to hop back into their bunks and pull the covers over their heads.†
p. 32.2
And it was the way Foreman Flacutono presented himself that made the orphans want to jump back into their bunks.†
p. 32.8
But it was the foreman's head that was the most unpleasant.†
p. 33.1
Foreman Flacutono was bald, as bald as an egg, but rather than admit to being bald like sensible people do, he had purchased a curly white wig that made it look like he had a bunch of large dead worms all over his head.†
p. 33.1
Some of the worm hairs stuck straight up, and some of them curled off to one side, and some of them ran down his ears and his forehead, and a few of them stretched straight out ahead as if they wanted to escape from Foreman Flacutono's scalp.†
p. 33.6
Foreman Flacutono's nose was all curled up under the mask, like an alligator hiding in the mud, and when he spoke the Baudelaires could see his mouth opening and closing behind the cloth.†
p. 33.9
It is perfectly proper to wear these masks in hospitals, of course, to stop the spreading of germs, but it makes no sense if you are the foreman of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.†
p. 34.2
The only reason Foreman Flacutono could have for wearing a surgical mask would be to frighten people, and as he peered down at the Baudelaire orphans they were quite frightened indeed.†
p. 34.3
"The first thing you can do, Baudeliars," Foreman Flacutono said, "is pick up my pots.†
p. 34.5
"If you don't pick up the pots this instant," Foreman Flacutono said, "you will get no chewing gum for lunch."†
p. 34.8
"Give them to me," Foreman Flacutono snapped, and grabbed the pots out of the girls' hands.†
p. 35.2
"I hate log days," one of the employees grumbled, but everyone followed Foreman Flacutono out of the dormitory and across the dirt-floored courtyard to the lumbermill, which was a dull gray building with many smokestacks sticking out of the top like a porcupine's quills.†
p. 35.5
The Baudelaires followed Foreman Flacutono into the lumbermill and saw that it was all one huge room, filled with enormous machines.†
p. 35.9
The Baudelaires had only a few seconds to be curious about these machines, however, before Foreman Flacutono began clanging his two pots together and barking out orders.†
p. 36.8
The pinchers picked up the tree on top of the stack and began lowering it to the ground, while Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together and shouted, "The debarkers!†
p. 37.6
Foreman Flacutono clanged his pots together again, and the employees crowded around the tree and began scraping against it with their debarkers, filing the bark off each tree as you or I might file our nails.†
p. 38.1
"You, too, midgets!" the foreman shouted, and the children found room among the adults to scrape away at the tree.†
p. 38.4
And Foreman Flacutono made his horrendous clanging noise as he banged his pots together.†
p. 39.7
Finally, as the employees finished their fourteenth log, Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together and shouted, "Lunch break!"†
p. 40.1
Foreman Flacutono threw his pots on the floor, walked over to the tiny green boxes, and grabbed one.†
p. 40.2 *
Sunny shrieked, but Foreman Flacutono began banging his pots together before anyone could realize what she meant.†
p. 42.5
What sort of man would hire a monster like Foreman Flacutono?†
p. 43.1
Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together again and pointed at the door, and the children stepped out of the noisy room into the quiet of the courtyard.†
p. 43.2
So each morning, when Foreman Flacutono clanged his pots together to wake everyone up, the Baudelaires took a good look at him to see if Count Olaf had taken his place.†
p. 64.5
But Foreman Flacutono always had the same dark and beady eyes, which didn't look a thing like Count Olaf's shiny ones, and he always spoke in his rough, muffled voice, which was the opposite of the smooth, snarly voice of Count Olaf.†
p. 64.8
It would have been just like Count Olaf to get himself hired as an employee, and snatch the orphans away while Foreman Flacutono wasn't looking.†
p. 65.2
After a few days of sawing, Foreman Flacutono ordered Phil to start up the machine with the enormous ball of string inside.†
p. 66.3
They had to wake up to the clanging of pots, and be ordered around by Foreman Flacutono.†
p. 69.7
Where did you—" Violet's question was interrupted by the sound of Foreman Flacutono's pots being banged together.†
p. 72.5
"I would just like to talk to these children for a few more minutes, Foreman Flacutono," Charles said.†
p. 72.7
Foreman Flacutono said, striding over to the orphans.†
p. 72.8
Unless you'd like to tell Sir that—" "Oh, no," Charles said quickly, backing away from Foreman Flacutono.†
p. 73.1
"Good," the foreman said shortly.†
p. 73.1
They had long ago given up trying to convince Foreman Flacutono that they weren't midgets.†
p. 73.3
They waved good-bye to Charles, and walked slowly to the waiting bundle of boards, with Foreman Flacutono walking behind them, and at that moment one of the children had a trick played on him which I hope has never been played on you.†
p. 73.4
It is a mean trick, and it is easy to do, and I'm sorry to say that Foreman Flacutono did it to Klaus right at this moment.†
p. 73.9

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(1) (foreman)
a person chosen to lead and speak for a group, especially at work or in a courtroom

At work, a foreman is the worker who supervises and directs other workers, often in factories, workshops, or on construction sites. In a court case, the foreman is the juror selected to lead the jury and announce its decision.
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