Word: doorman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reassuring Farewell. The great city which would be her capital awaited the new Queen's arrival in stunned silence. "I've never seen Piccadilly Circus so quiet," said a London doorman. Only four months ago, King George's people had worried through his terrible operation and his slow recovery. Then they had seen him, a week ago, in newsreels and newsphotos, bareheaded and seemingly hale, waving a cheery farewell to his daughter at London airport. Despite his still haggard features, they had felt a surge of relief at the apparent improvement in his health. The royal tour...
...package of dry cleaning to the ten-room apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue. Two hours later he telephoned to apologize-wrong address. Next morning two men showed up to reclaim the package; one of them drew a pistol and quietly invited the butler to instruct the doorman downstairs to admit their ringleader. Then they waited politely for their victim-Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, 46-to finish a telephone call before they went into her bedroom. "You don't want to get hurt," said one soothingly. "Where are the jewels...
...Doorman into Despot. The company's doorman turned out to be the head of 150 Nazis among the house's employees, and soon he was telling the Ullsteins whom to hire & fire and what to print. After all Jewish editors were fired, the Ullsteins were ordered to sell out to non-Jews. For the enterprise, easily worth $20 million, the brothers had to take about $4,300,000 from a buyer who was not named. He turned out to be Hitler himself. Soon the Nazis milked the Ullsteins of most of the $4,300,000 with trumped...
...televised like a plate of worms." Since then she has learned how to make up. She has done several operatic bits on TV, and recently had herself a good time alongside Milton Berle, whose art she candidly admires. After her TV bits, people all over town, including the doorman at her apartment-hotel, tell her they caught the show. "Where else," asks Patrice Munsel, "can you get an audience quite like that...
...delightful Oscar Straus waltz, signaling each consummation, helping to set a gauzily Viennese mood, and accompanying a refrain sung and spoken by Narrator Walbrook. The narrator spins a symbolic merry-go-round and manages the characters like a master puppeteer, pops up in each episode as a waiter, doorman or passerby and once, prophetically, with shears in one hand and film in the other, as the censor...