Word: doorman
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...semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector's apartment house; "Lucky Sam" Lipschitz, Dave the Slapper, gangsters...
...tight-collared, $20-per-week clerk in a broker's office, paid $1 for a ticket in the Canadian Army & Navy Veterans' Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. The ticket drew Blenheim, won $149,262. Edward P. Dougherty told the news to his father, Daniel, an apartment house doorman, and his brother Daniel Jr., another broker's clerk. Instantly, in their four-room apartment, they fell to arguing...
Miss Evelyn Brent plays the role of the cabaret hostess. She twitters up and down the gamut of human emotion, from smiles and choking sobs to playing fast and loose with a whole, orchestra and the doorman thrown in for good measure. Only she, a detective, and the audience know that underneath it all she's a good girl. And despite the novelty of plot and histrionics, the picture doesn't get over...
Difficulty was met in finding prohis who looked collegiate enough to pass the doorman. Sixteen national fraternities whose headquarters were in the clubhouse are privately expressing and publicly suppressing...
...sorry," said the doorman after searching carefully through his big book, "but I cannot find the newspaper you say you represent on our list. We have L'Action Française, but not La République Française...