Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maitre d'hotel, two housekeepers, four butlers, six cooks, a valet, five doormen, five housemen, a head laundress, a pantry woman, eight maids, eight engineers, four carpenters, four electricians, three plumbers, two storekeepers, a painter, ten laborers and eleven gardeners...
Kansas City's Soc-Hop, owned and operated by a policeman and his brother-inlaw, requires an admission card that can be yanked for unruly conduct, is guarded by husky doormen who watch for "suspicious bulges"' that might be liquor bottles...
...smiled just then, but fellow actors generally like Bobby Morse too-when they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...
...Doormen, however, look on the riders with disdain; and sometimes, owning a bicycle in Manhattan is as frustrating as owning a car. A short time ago, Theater Owner Daniel Talbot came downtown from his apartment for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The hotel refused to let him park his bike in the lobby, a policeman told him to get it off the sidewalk, a garage attendant would not let him park in his lot even if he paid regular prices. He moved...
...underground garage, extension phones in the bathrooms (an extra washbasin is placed in a separate, screened-off vanity), a refrigerator-bar and an electric shoe polisher in each room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees and knows everything and can do almost anything. He must combine the talents of a living telephone directory...