Word: doorman
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...afternoon for walking, a spring afternoon, a free afternoon with no draft board to bother it and no sergeant standing there somewhere past the brightness of the sun. Vag walked up the street, holding himself very crect; he passed a man in an Air Force uniform, and said "doorman" very quietly to himself...
...years) or like a man who would enjoy a musical evening with Harry Truman. (Auriol plays the violin.) On his only previous visit to Washington, as a member of the 1925 Franco-American War Debts Commission, Auriol shocked his superiors by running up and embracing the doorman at the French embassy, who turned out to be an old school chum. "If you please, Vincent, behave yourself," reproved the commission's president, stiff-backed Joseph Caillaux. "Hey, President," laughed Auriol, "what would you do if you met an old pal from Mamers...
...Omaha, where she was in the midst of a cross-country tour last week, a happy doorman at the Dreamland Ballroom nodded close to 1,000 frenzied Little Esther fans through the door-several hundred more than fire regulations call for. Dressed in demure organdy, roly-poly Little Esther herself had to step over a circle of backstage crapshooters to get onstage. Once there, she flashed a big gold tooth into the spotlight. Bandleader Johnny Otis laid down a fat and winsome chord, and Little Esther cut her big, warm, billowing voice adrift on a blues...
Temporary Job. In Pittsburgh, Nightclub Doorman Herbert Gibbs began a year's jail sentence for taking over a patron's car on his first day on the job, not parking it until he reached the outskirts of Cleveland...
...trouble was the dances at the city's Cahill Recreation Center, where the doorman was refusing admittance to anyone whose pants cuffs measured less than 17 inches. What was a drape without his narrow cuffs? Nothing at all. Complained Roy Fosler: "There's too much discrimination against guys with pegs on." Added Tom Fales: "The squares are afraid we'll take their girls away from them...