| When the Chinese laundryman refused to wash for him without payment she had sent his things to be washed with hers. |
| As a laundryman in Paris in 1920, he co-founded the French Communist Party, and in 1923 went as its delegate to the Communist International in Moscow. |
| Unskilled labour is the first to feel the slackness of hard times, and I had no trades save those of sailor and laundryman. |
| Whenever the laundryman was late in arriving he was sure that it was lost forever. |
| He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920, and moved to Harlem where he worked variously as a stoker, an elevator operator, a laundryman and a ship painter. |
| I had a French neighbour, a Bangladeshi plumber, a Pakistani laundryman, a Goan class teacher, and a Swiss-American benchmate in school. |
