Word: doorman
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Outside "Bill's Gay Nineties," midtown Manhattan nightspot, Cinemauthor Adela Rogers St. John, her husband Francis Patrick O'Toole and friends Daniel Higgins & Will Wright claimed they were set upon without provocation by Doorman Charles F. ("Sailor") Grande. Wright's skull was fractured. Taken to police court, where her party as well as the doorman were booked for assault. Miss St. John explained how she came through the brawl unscathed...
...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...
...other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope of many, however, that when the preferred list is again made out, a reservation such as that maintained by the HAA will be made: Kindly deposit all candid cameras or any other sort of photographic devices with the doorman...
Best story in the book, and one which many a reader will recognize as a masterpiece, is the reprinted The Man Who Conquered Death. Herr Fiala, an ex-doorman at a government office, had been retired for old age, spent all his savings on a life-insurance policy. All he understood about the policy was that he had to live past his 65th birthday; otherwise his wife would get nothing. But weeks before the date he had to go to the hospital; he was dying. Though the doctors all said he had no business to be still alive, old Fiala...
...Angeles' Hotel Biltmore an unidentified woman directed a novice doorman to help her move a chair from the hall to a waiting taxi, drove off with the hotel's furniture...