Word: greeter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greeter...
...variance with the lyric distributed aboard the Charlie White, Tammany definitely did not turn out to greet prodigal Mr. Walker. "Fighting Al" Smith had other business. Onetime Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired...
...Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...Chicago. Colonel (Kentucky &. Oklahoma ) George D. Gaw filed a claim for $16,347 with the City for services rendered as Official Greeter. Appointed to that post July 3, 1931, Col. Gaw made a name for himself by going to greeting in snow-white clothes, a snow-white car escorted by motorcycles. He wrote a greeting song ("Greetings, Chicago Welcomes You."), encouraged functionaries to make brief factual recitals to visitors (Bell boys: "Happy Days. Sir; 20,000 speakeasies in the City."). With the election of Mayor Kelly, he returned to the envelope business. Explained he : "There is no salary...
...anecdotes: the practical joker who put a fresh-killed pig in the bed of the town drunkard; the man who could find no peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...