Word: hatcheck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characteristically, disdained any praise as a civil rights advocate. It was only "bread-and-butter" common sense to encourage Negro members, he explained, because otherwise they would become strikebreakers. He recruited not only truckers for his union but every other worker he could muster, from aircraft workers to hatcheck girls. So large was his union that a nationwide Teamsters' strike could paralyze the U.S. economy, and Hoffa lost no chance to brag about such power...
...headed for Manhattan, where her first role was as a hatcheck girl at a sort of "Dolly Dainty restaurant near Rockefeller Center." Two years of jobs at we-stage-our-own-original-revues-every-week-type summer resorts, minor TV work, and a burgeoning acquaintance with the city's unemployment compensation officials, brought her a booking at Manhattan's Blue Angel, a smoky launching pad for talent that holds a star-making record no other nightclub can equal. Says Carol: "I wanted to open with something different from the usual 'Hello, Everybody' kind of song-something...
Adams crusaded against illegible house numbers, hatcheck girls, paper towels, his wife's salad dressing, and dry-sweeping with a broom (he felt that the dust raised was dangerously germy). "Whom are you?" demanded "The Conning Tower" testily of any author caught misusing the pronoun...