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...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
Senators Arthur Capper of Kansas and Peter Narbeck of South Dakota were understanding near Doorman McKenna when the newsgatherers charged by. The President was expecting them. They entered...
...illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down at the writing table and abused the stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further...
...Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...