Word: doorman
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...opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He calls up his assistant (Ann Dvorak) and orders her to come to dinner. At a swank night club, to which he gains admittance by saying to the doorman "We are friends of Mr. Sweeney," he gambles coolly with $1,000 chips under the impression that they cost $1. Finally, with inebriated courage, he decides to rewrite his insincere eulogy of a crooked politician in the form of a philippic. This leads to a scene in the offices...
...ingredient of Ladies Should Listen should interest seasoned cinemaddicts, Charles Ray, whose characterizations of shy rustics made him one of the richest U.S. cinemactors twelve years ago, functions as a doorman devoted to a telephone operator...
...Yale is a good college. Rudy Vallee went there, you know. And he is sure a swell fellow, even though he does have trouble with his wives." So says Pat Campbell (pronounced Camel), doorman of the British Empire Building at New York's Radio City. "I like Princeton too; who was it that went there? Oh yes, Woodrow Wilson...
...find that I am paying out of my salary, reduced 41%, not 15%, for the doorman of the chancellery and the night watchman," declared Ambassador to Spain Claude G. Bowers. "This is intolerable...
...Conant, James B. Conant", answered the President. The doorman ran carefully through his list, and found no Conant there...