Word: greeterism
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During his 50-year regency over the cuisine of New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Oscar Tschirky-Oscar of the Waldorf to thousands of epic epicures -rose to such gastronomic eminence that his memory endures in menus, viands and appetites the world over. A greeter, Oscar in his white chef's cap stood figuratively astride the gourmet banquet table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef...
...Doer. Some of the criticism that is aimed directly at Craig has come from the fact that he is still not a polished politician. Although he is an effusive greeter, a vigorous handshaker and an. expert at the Indiana political massage,* he has a tendency toward bluntness. He neglects many of the politician's chores, e.g., he passes up fairs and conventions at which an appearance by the governor is expected. At times his failure to observe the political amenities angers even his important allies...
...pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed in Mexico City, the most important refugee to reach there since Leon Trotsky in 1937. His only greeter, aside from reporters and plainclothesmen, was Mexico's leftist Senator Luis Rodriguez, onetime Ambassador to Guatemala...
...Official Greeter. When World War II came, he volunteered for the fighting front, but was captured by the Germans before he could do much soldiering. Luck was with him. Because he had been drafted briefly in World War I, Bidault was released by the Nazis in a general parole of World War I veterans. He made his way to Lyon, ostensibly to resume teaching. But instead, the meek-seeming little professor undertook the hazardous life of an underground patriot. He joined a Roman Catholic resistance group named Combat, soon was publicly identified as a resister and had to plunge into...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper: "Dan is full of guile. He is a professional glad-hander and greeter...