Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Likewise the President has put in a new system of buzzers: one short sharp ring brings Secretary George Akerson. Other signals summon lesser secretaries, stenographers, doormen...
...thoroughgoing ogre, M. Le Capitaine is of thickset, pugnacious build, has quarreled with and knocked down doormen and waiters at smart Deauville Casino. The prodigious Loewenstein retinue, male & female, have been reported to receive, in addition to highest wages, a certain amount of cuffing...
With Mr. Baldwin as President the CRIMSON will probably need two doormen. For sarely he will use the knowledge of the "right thing to do" in the proper fashion. Furthermore, he will have all the necessary characteristics, as defined by him in his article. He will be "a Harvard graduate", "socially presentable", anyone who has an article in the Transcript is that, and he will be "between thirty and forty years old", since he was born in 1896. Nor will he be "a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller". Mr. Baldwin is evidently an egoist...
...been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...
...arrangement regarding maintenance men was made, more satisfactory to the miners than any ?in previous strikes. Ten thousand men?bratticers, carpenters, drivers, doormen, headmen, footmen, engineers, pumpmen, lumbermen, etc.?will stay at the mine throughout the strike, will receive retroactively any increase in wages when operations are resumed, will not be discharged by the operators...