Word: doorman
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They could not keep Jules, doorman for M. Briand, from appearing in all his medals. Jules said "War is abominable, but the army ... is fine." Also spoke Jules, "This American, too, Mr. Kellogg. Perhaps he will get to understand France better, like the American Ambassador does, and will make jokes and laugh like Mr. Herrick does with M. Briand...
...management of the theatre has announced that for entrance to the the are on Saturday evening, members of the club are to show their club cards to the doorman. All members will sit together in a specially reserved section of the theatre...
Harvard men who visit a new restaurant in Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...
When President Coolidge "chose," he startled his secretary and his doorman. He startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
...returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...