Word: doormen
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Many, especially liberals, display a touching reticence about admitting social and economic differences. Women often introduce their maids as "Mrs. Parker"-but they rarely tell the maid, "Mary, meet my friend Georgia." Doormen, among others, usually use Mr. or Mrs. when addressing the tenants, but expect to be called "Frank" or "Reuben." If a tenant in a democratic effusion should suggest that they both use first names, the doorman is often vaguely offended-something in the relationship has been disrupted...
...hooker was one of 17 active or retired prostitutes scheduled to appear in the case, which will last at least a month. The girls, as it happens, are not on trial but are witnesses for the prosecution. The state has called on them to testify against nine bellhops and doormen who are charged with shaking down prostitutes prospecting for customers at Warsaw's most expensive hotel, the Europejski...
...fascinating fragment of testimony in the Warsaw trial established that there is at least some spirit of cooperation between Polish officialdom and prostitutes working the Europejski. A redhead testified that last year one of the accused doormen refused to let a group of harlots into the hotel unless each paid him 100 zloties ($5). She said that one of the girls got angry and made a telephone call. "Then a lady from the Interior Ministry [which runs the Polish secret police] came over to the hotel and took care of everything," the girl said. "Did the doorman...
...Houses are locked and peepholes installed, they become more like apartment buildings minus the doormen or buzzer system. The best guarantee of security is the bells desk approach now in operation at Currier House; any Harvard student can always get in merely by presenting his or her bursar's card to the student at the desk. Registered guests can enter without bursar's cards and no one must go outdoors to admit visitors...
...hear in propaganda films. Wherever there was a television camera, the press agents urged the girls to "scream now" and paid the lucky ones 25 dollars to faint on cue. When the Beatles finally arrived at the Plaza, the crowd charged and nearly killed the chauffeur and two doormen. The PR men sighed with relief. Through a mixture of circus press-agentry and true love, the Beatles were already, on their first day in America, becoming more popular than Jesus...