Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concentrators in the Romance Languages naturally form a large percentage of the membership of these clubs, but membership is by no means limited to undergraduates. One of the Widener doormen happened to have lived in Brazil for a while and now he and his wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them...
...every bubble-breasted little golddigger's heart? "Still around, but dying out," reports Cartoonist Arno. "He got hit hard by the crash and all but vanished under a bale of taxes in the '30s. Nowadays you see all kinds of people in my drawings-cab drivers, boxers, doormen-people you never saw there before. Sign of the times...
...underpaid staff would be expecting tips when he left. So one day recently before rushing to catch the Ankara Express, he armed himself with a handful of crisp banknotes to take care of them. Sure enough, when he checked out, there was an expectant echelon of busboys, waiters, doormen, bellmen, telephone girls and elevator operators all lined up with outstretched hand by the hotel desk. Racing for his taxicab, the diplomat slapped a bill into each eager hand along the line and finally reached the street. Then he turned, stopped, stared in dismay for two seconds and returned to snatch...
Armies of people in the U.S. hate it with a consuming hatred. English writers and visitors from west of the Hudson are continually appalled by it; by its dirt, its tip-hungry doormen, its bigness, its gangs of savage street urchins, and the humid horror of its tropical summers. To Britain's Novelist J. B. Priestley, Broadway is "an angry carbuncle ... a thoroughfare in Hell where you take your choice between idiotic films . . . and shops crammed with schoolboy tricks." Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of France's Existentialism, spoke of "this desert of rock" and also complained...
...March 18, the employees of the Harvard Club staged a demonstration in protest against what they considered stalling tactics by the management. At 12:55 P.M. the kitchen staff, porters, bartenders, bellboys, doormen, and cleaning staff left their posts and congregated in the locker rooms for an exhibition of solidarity. Fifteen minutes later management representatives came down to the locker rooms and informed the demonstrators that they were no longer employed by the Harvard Club. When the employees refused to leave the building, they were ejected by the police...