Word: hatcheck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually ate lunch at the Waldorf's Norse Grill, just across the hall, was always greeted effusively by the hatcheck girl ($2 tip), the headwaiter ($3 tip) and the lucky man who served his table. Almost every afternoon he wandered off by himself to see a "pictcha," a lonely figure who sought out movies he hadn't seen before, on Broadway or in the suburbs, without caring whether it was a cowboy film, a thriller, a musical, or good or bad. At dusk, he went to the dimly lighted cocktail lounge of the Madison Hotel, had a maximum...
...turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...
Bettering Girls. In his tireless pursuit of jump, and on the theory that his patrons are easily jaded, Hover redecorates Giro's every two years. The cigarette and hatcheck girls, fetchingly attired in black-net hose, ballet skirts and tight bodices, are breathtaking and don't last long. If a girl hasn't "bettered herself" in three months, she is likely to be dropped. Betterment usually means getting some kind of movie job. One former Giro's girl, "Sunny" Ainsworth, married Tommy Manville (his seventh...
...Manhattan's garish and financially hard-pressed Monte Carlo nightclub decided to close up after employees went out on strike for higher wages. But to show they had no hard feelings they threw a big farewell party; before the night was over, the headwaiter danced spryly with the hatcheck girl...
...looking over one Albert Alna as a suitor. She had definitely crossed off Danny Wicker, Daytona Beach, Fla. bar owner. "We're both of too nervous a temperament to make a go of it," she explained. Though still unwed and unbespoken, Mrs. Lawlor had quit work as a hatcheck girl. "After all, there's nothing to check in the summer," she said...