Word: doorman
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...students who intend to avail themselves of the offer of the Colonial Club should leave their names with the doorman or the newsstand at the Union. If sufficient interest is shown in the project it is probable that the Union will organize tournaments in bowling such as have previously been held in squash and billiards...
...looking through your issue of Dec. 7, I found two very interesting things: one, a subscription order blank for TIME; the other, an article on p. 30 entitled "Doorman." The order blank was printed in green and red, colors obviously intended to remind one of Christmas, the birthday of Him who preached "peace on earth, good will toward men." The article on p. 30 dealt with a black man who knocked down a white...
...easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited for the taxi to move along. Its driver, one Edward Cohen, seemed inclined to loiter, to dawdle. "Hump yo'self, Jew boy," said Doorman Johnson...
...Doorman Johnson smiled his ivory smile. One of his fists moved forward a few inches. Mr. Cohen fell to the ground, spat out two teeth, screamed for a policeman...
...half-hour later the team was turning somersaults and tipping over taxicabs out in front of the Tremens Theatre. Having ripped up half the pavement and broken all the glass in the lobby they were filling quietly in when the doorman (Yale '99) and the box-office individual (Princeton 01) and the manager (wherever he went) conspired to stop their progress. The charge of intoxication was, of course, ridiculous...