Word: bellboy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half the night drafting the demanded letter with the help of his lawyer. Then, according to one of Fischer's friends, Bobby and the lawyer went to Spassky's hotel in the wee hours to deliver the message. Spassky was asleep. Undaunted, the Americans persuaded a bellboy to open the door to Spassky's room and they tiptoed in, placed the letter on the desk and tiptoed out. In the letter, released later that day, Fischer offered Spassky "my sincerest apology" for "offending you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position...
...there was one more theory afoot. When one bellboy complained to a college-age girl he was chasing that her father was being rather stingy in the favors he dispensed, she stared at him almost dumbfounded. "Look," she said, "the way daddy figures it, you're all Harvard guys and he's a Harvard man and he just doesn't see any need for one Harvard to give money to another...
They wonder what it costs and whether the company would ship like material to their town. They ring bells to see if attendants will come. The actual bellboy, because he has a face, and consequently imperfections, is not at all what they would have suspected. But even though he is not the butler on television, they are impressed. The general, remembering that I do not drive, said that he enjoyed driving and got into the Iriver's seat himself. Highest paid chauffeur you'll ever have, he said to me. This manner made quite a hit with the congressman...
Using Every Minute. Carlson, who manages to be both affable and aggressive, has made a remarkable record in 41 years in the hotel business. He started as a bellboy, dropped out of the University of Washington because of lack of money, rose during World War II to become a Navy lieutenant commander, and went on to become president of Western International Hotels in 1960. Under him, it has become the third largest U.S.-owned hotel group. It has more than 60 mostly luxury hotels, and in recent years has moved into Latin America, Canada, Asia and South Africa...
...comes Mrs. Prentice's previous night's lover, Nick (Charles Murphy), a hotel bellboy in full uniform who wants to blackmail the lady with some morning-after photo negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings...