Word: doorman
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...Hull. Twenty-nine minutes later Mr. Welles, his face settled into its mask of boredom, Mr. Hull, with his patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge desk carved from timbers of the Resolute. There ended Welles's trip...
...Adventures of Oscar, Oscar is himself, drawn much smaller than in his European comic strips. His explanation: "I am bewildered. I feel like a very little man in New York." In one strip (see cut) he is frisked in & out of his overcoat by a tall, indifferent U. S. doorman...
...uniformed doorman ushered Gladys and her escort in at the Club's canopied entrance. In the dining room a name band was playing, an elaborate floor show was just beginning. Off the lobby was a gaming room with tables for roulette, craps, black jack, high-low. Reporter Priddy recognized some of Lake County's plumpest dowagers, smartest débutantes...
Last fortnight, for the amusement of his radio audience of some 15,000,000, Fred got to jawing with Guest Lawrence Duffy, doorman at Manhattan's Hotel Astor in high times & low. The talk got around to tips. Doorman Duffy sighingly recalled a boom-time gratuity of $100. "Yes," sighed Fred, "back in '28, some of those Wall Street men used to think nothing of buying the restaurant and throwing it to the waiter as a tip. I guess some of those boys still chuckle about their financial pranks as they're sitting around up in Sing...
...studied journalism at the University of Washington, but being stagestruck, ushered without pay in a Seattle theatre. At 21 he reached New York as the least important of Anna Held's four press agents. Subsequent ups & downs turned him into a heavily liveried doorman at the old Century Theatre, into editor of The American Angler while knowing nothing about fish. He offered his readers such advice as "keep your fly in the water, the trout don't live in trees," then resigned, "not without considerable support from the public...