Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool early morning in autumn, New York City's Park Avenue is a quiet place to walk. Town-house curtains are drawn against the dawn; broad sidewalks are bare of people. Yawning, hotel doormen crack their white-gloved knuckles in boredom...
...fall of 1932 a jobless salesman named Mortimer Glankoff, who was eating on a borrowed $100, began distributing to Manhattan's West Side apartment dwellers a 12-page throwaway called Naborhood Theatre Guide. Salesman Glankoff had a trusting printer and he got doormen to distribute his Guide by bribing them with movie passes. Within a year he was selling enough advertising to hire as editor one Jesse Zunser, a footloose free lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little...
Meeting the Grand Duke in Paris were many of his White Russian "subjects"-generals now turned taxi drivers, counts reduced to waiting on tables, colonels who have become doormen. In a rented hall "His Majesty Vladimir II, Tsar of All the Russias," held "court," his subjects kneeling in obeisance as he proceeded slowly down an aisle to the tune of God Save the Tsar, the old Russia imperial anthem. Reported preparing to meet the acknowledged head of the Russian Imperial House in Germany, however, was a powerful, potential ally, a sworn enemy of the Communist Russia that must be overturned...
...Gashouse stands Tammany Hall itself. There today live some of Manhattan's poorest and some of its richest, for just uptown from the East River gas tanks that gave the district its name, the rich have built a riverside colony of towering apartment houses. Through this home of doormen, poodles, gamins and Irish politics last week reverberated the angry sounds of a highly important skirmish in Franklin Roosevelt's Purge...
Many an adult New Yorker remembers when he used to stand on tiptoe so as to look tall when buying tickets to the movies, lie to suspicious doormen who asked: "Are you over 16?" New York City fortnight ago lifted the ban which prohibited children under 16 from entering cinemansions unless accompanied by adults. Last week theatre-owners there were busy arranging machinery to comply with a new law whereby most peewees can hereafter attend cinemansions without subterfuge...