Word: doormen
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...society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes...
Winners ranged from filling station attendants to doormen, from airplane riveters to landladies. Most of the "Lucky Buckaroos" came in happily to have their pictures taken, bills streaming from their ears or swirling around their heads. Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe was just as happy; July circulation was above normal...
...performers who get just enough parts to keep their hopes up, but not enough for a reliable livelihood. As a result, many of them take time out from haunting producers' offices to do part-time work as peanut vendors, sightseeing guides, sales clerks, doormen and soda jerks. Miller differs from the rest mainly in the choice of his principal sideline, which puts him on TV screens nearly as much as his acting in such shows as Stop the Music and Lux Video Theater...
...motel, a traveler got comfortable lodging without battling city traffic, a parking place for his car and dodged the tip-hungry parade of hotel doormen and bellboys. As Miami's Motel Keeper David Lingo put it: "In Florida we have 29 varieties of palms-including the outstretched...
...they believed the Northwest was a wonderful place just as it was. There were reasons. Though living was not cheap, wages were high. There were self-conscious attempts at social snobbery, but neither the tradition nor the wealth and power which produce Newports, obsequious clerks and polite Park Avenue doormen; the Northwest's waitresses and laundry drivers were a neighborly lot, but were glad to say they took no backtalk from the customers...