Word: doorman
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...afternoon a doorman surreptitiously slipped my mother a note saying that our superintendent—who was supposedly setting off the next week to visit a dying brother in Yugoslavia—was actually going away to serve a prison sentence. Some searching on the Department of Justice’s website revealed he was expected to arrive at a Pennsylvania prison. Google work by a neighbor showed more—that he was in fact a member of the Genovese crime family ring and had been convicted of trying to extort money from the New York Times?...
...discretion Franklin differed from his countrymen, who almost universally found the Paris posting a Calvary and who were vocal on the subject. One swore he would prefer a farm in America to a dukedom in France. Adams wailed that he would rather be a doorman in Congress. Among his torments was Franklin himself, who understood that some American qualities--piety, earnestness, efficiency--did not go far in 18th century France. Franklin remained at all times a pragmatist and an astonishingly flexible thinker. He was realistic about the prospects of conducting business in a land of radically different habits...
...Harvard men’s hockey team concluded its season in Worcester. Or perhaps it might be more apt to say the team had its season concluded. A year ago, Maine shut the door in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This season, BU played the role of doorman, ending the Crimson’s hopes for the Frozen Four...
...Harvard men's hockey team concluded its season in Worcester. Or perhaps it might be more apt to say the team had its season concluded. A year ago, Maine shut the door in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This season, BU played the role of doorman, ending the Crimson's hopes for the Frozen Four...
...that the show’s closing, and I didn’t know about that until I got the call,” said Harris, a Kirkland House resident and a biochemistry concentrator. “I knew some of the crew. The actors changed, but the same doorman has been there forever...