Word: bellhops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel-goer patiently stands in slow-moving queues at the understaffed registration desk. He rides to the wrong floors in jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have...
...told her: "Every time I meet you, a 20 is yours." He met her once more, shelled out another $20. Two maids who cleaned McLean's room got $50 apiece. An R.A.F. officer who bumped into McLean had $45 thrust upon him. Ruby Costello, 20-year-old bellhop, got $96 in tips. Total outlay in one day: $281. It left Kentville gasping. But it was really small-fry stuff for Harry McLean...
...been pointing at tomorrow, usually by prodding at today, for more years than many U.S. radicals could remember. He had done three books with drawings about Hell; in the last volume, Hell was equipped with all modern inconveniences, and the new rulers (Capitalists) referred to Satan as "the bellhop," "the rubberstamp." He had drawn, for the old Life and many other magazines. He had done simple, sad, angry drawings like the one in which the little boy and girl of the slums find their own words for a beautiful night: "Chee Annie, look at the stars, thick as bedbugs...
Britons, accustomed to self-effacing army batmen, are intrigued by Sergeant Michael James ("Mickey") McKeogh. A onetime bellhop from Manhattan, Mickey is chauffeur, dishwasher, letter writer for Lieut. General Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower, who was a colonel only 14 months ago. Last week Mickey was asked how he got his successive promotions to staff sergeant. Said Batboy McKeogh: "Simple. Every time I get the General one he gets...
...reporter on the News 40 years ago and where he now owns the Scripps-Howard Times, Publisher Roy Howard turned reporter again. He was resting in Indianapolis' Washington Hotel, after lunching with the publisher of the opposition News and the general manager of the opposition Star, when a bellhop told him a car had just smashed up across the street. He rushed out, found that an epileptic driver had plowed through a crowd on the sidewalk, killing three people and injuring...