Word: doormen
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With Mr. Baldwin as President the CRIMSON will probably need two doormen. For sarely he will use the knowledge of the "right thing to do" in the proper fashion. Furthermore, he will have all the necessary characteristics, as defined by him in his article. He will be "a Harvard graduate", "socially presentable", anyone who has an article in the Transcript is that, and he will be "between thirty and forty years old", since he was born in 1896. Nor will he be "a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller". Mr. Baldwin is evidently an egoist...
...been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...
...arrangement regarding maintenance men was made, more satisfactory to the miners than any ?in previous strikes. Ten thousand men?bratticers, carpenters, drivers, doormen, headmen, footmen, engineers, pumpmen, lumbermen, etc.?will stay at the mine throughout the strike, will receive retroactively any increase in wages when operations are resumed, will not be discharged by the operators...
...went this evening to a gathering at the largest and most luxurious of the clubs here, the Union, to hear for myself the sort of fetid propaganda the capitalist directorate are putting into the mouths of this puppet faculty. The doormen refused to let me in simply because I could not show a membership card. Another proof of their preposterous caste exclusiveness! Luckily I know so well the capitalist mind, that I was able to write a full report of the talk to the comrades in New York, notwithstanding...
...There are at present 82 freshmen and sophomores acting as waiters, and 16 upperclassmen working as ushers, doormen, and floor captains. Each waiter works two meals every day and sits with the other students for the third. For this service, if he works full time, he gets payment which is equivalent to the remission of board. Applications for the position are made through the Bureau of Self-Help...