Word: doormen
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...Chateau Frontenac brochures promise opulence and charm, and the lobby delivers. Bellhops in neatly pressed uniforms charge through the hallways, friendly old doormen smile as they swing open brocaded doors and plush couches line the darkly-stained lobby...
...being rejected for a menial job at the city's waterworks. But he may have been relatively fortunate. Another red Bonze (bigwig) was reportedly seen washing dishes at Berlin's Grand Hotel -- rather like those exiled archdukes from czarist Russia who eked out a living as waiters and doormen in post-1918 Paris...
...year-old paper with more flavorful writing and beefed-up coverage of sports and city news. But the Times has also been giving more prominent play to softer features, such as a piece last week on how celebrities are dealing with a local strike of apartment-building doormen...
Some of Ivana's ideas of decoration were a little odd, like sending to London for fur hats to bring a touch of Buckingham Palace to the doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity...
...weapons; all 25,000 were frisked individually. It wasn't the uniforms of the Fruit of Islam guards, men in deep blue caps and suits, looking like parodies of club-car porters, or the female guards surrounding Farrakhan as he spoke, wearing white kepis and robes that looked like doormen's coats. Nothing that occurred on stage was more or less troubling than watching a drunk in a subway cursing the "niggers" or the "spics...