Word: doorman
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Even the elderly backstage doorman was excited, for he had heard the buzzing in the lobby during the intermission. "They're crazy about you," he told the 15-year-old lad. "Just crazy...
...destroying a race. The Indians could not adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...
...doorman guarding the gallery on the seventh floor of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange began turning visitors away. Inside, jampacked spectators looked down to the trading floor where traders were clustering, half an hour early, around the octagonal steps of the coarse-grains pit. Since September 1943 there had been ceilings on oats and barley and trading had all but died. Now a free market had returned...
Outbreaks of anti-Semitism were in the news. A Northampton magistrate heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor...
...second doorman, admitting he "just got the job," suggested to a CRIMSON photographer on the scene, "For your sake, for my sake, and for the sake of your camera, you'd better leave...