Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...
...admiration, less attracted to talkative or fashionably dressed people. They like household pets, dislike gruff men. They are good at handling complaints. They are conservative, cautious, prefer not to make plans alone, would not like to be criminal lawyers or stockbrokers, seldom try to bluff their way past doormen. They like clergymen and teetotalers more than the other groups do; are not inclined to daydream; resent criticism. They rather like to argue which they do without losing their tempers...
Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
...harem of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid ("The Damned") with its thousand wives and its scores of eunuchs. The blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love...
Marilyn Miller's step-in was the chief acquisition of the couple who shared first prize with Mrs. Waterbury & Mr. Holmsen. At the theatre where Actress Miller is dancing in As Thousands Cheer, doormen and a detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing room. After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassi...