Word: greeter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual habiliments-morning coat, striped trousers, buttonhole gardenia- Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York City's official greeter and onetime police commissioner, stepped out on a cinema set in Los Angeles. .So much did he resemble an extra actor made up for the play in progress that an assistant director gave him a push, bellowing: "Come on, get a move on!" When Mr. Whalen protested politely, the assistant director roared: "Don't gee fresh with me!" Grover Aloysius Whalen extricated himself from this embarrassing situation by producing his calling card...
...reconciliation between the stubborn military Mule and the hard-headed nautical Goat. The contest was first seriously proposed by long-legged Sports Editor Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News (TIME, Nov. 17). And the man who finally turned the trick was New York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley and Adams to bring about the game. When they failed, persuasive Mr. Whalen journeyed to Annapolis and West Point, somehow managed to get the superintendent of each...
...front porch of the church is a thin John the Disciple carved on the median jamb of the red double doors. St. John is the greeter. For "ushers" he has on one side of the porch Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah; on the other side followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured...
Pressed by public dissatisfaction with the handling of the Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928), New York City's popular, publicity-loving Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker chose not a criminologist but a capable diverter of public opinion to be police commissioner. It was his longtime official greeter of distinguished guests, efficient and immaculate Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, general manager of Wanamaker's Department Store...
Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor...