Word: bellhops
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...there we could hear them cursing. I broke into the place and found them reeling about like a lot of drunken hogs. It was the worst mess I ever saw. Bottles were being hurled about, men were fighting and two of them attacked me. We arrested the bellhop as he was serving liquor. [They] destroyed a whole bathtub of bottled liquor which was packed...
...They were all in a bad way. I told them who I was, and they asked me to free the bellhop, but I refused. There were at least 40 men in the room, and all of them were drunk...
...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...
...weak, ineffective son of a futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character...
...college, "bellhop to the world...