Word: bellboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish burr, then departed, with a "Good night and God bless you." At 11:30, he and Mrs. Murray retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard of hearing) was still asleep. Phil Murray lay crumpled on the floor between the twin beds, dead of a heart attack...
Arriving at the town where the governor makes his night speech, says Glasgow, "you first see if you have a room. Later, it is a good idea to go to your room and see whether the bellboy has left your bag. Sometimes he hasn't, and bags are swapped back & forth until everyone has his own. My own bag experiences have been only slightly exasperating: 1) one bag irreparably destroyed in the handling; 2) no bag at all for 36 hours, when I went from Washington to Chicago directly and my luggage went there by way of Richmond...
...Gold Coasters to a 12 to 7 victory over Lowell in the other tackle game. In the first quarter Picard blocked a punt and recovered the ball in the end zone. His hard charging led to another tally in the second quarter when he recovered the fumble of a Bellboy he had just tackled behind the goal...
...first play of the third quarter Freddy Rhinelander broke through the left side of the Bellboy line for a 75-yard touchdown. Eliot failed to make the extra point. Kurzman passed to Rhinelander in the fourth quarter, and later ran for two scores himself when he couldn't find a receiver, making the final tally...
Apart from the Yard, which has mothered a majority of the Rinehart disturbances, Grand Central Station was at one time affiliated with the cry, and one Yale-game day a riot broke out in the Taft Hotel in New Haven when a certain Mr. Rinehart was paged by a bellboy...