Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recalling that a controversy has been raging between the Pullman Co. and the all-Negro union of Pullman porters, newsgatherers made haste to inquire if the twinkling twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...
...times funnier than his partner and that the canny reluctance to state the name of the opponents of the French, English and U. S. Troops in the late War adds little to the suspense. Home Made. Johnny Hines, pretending he is a man pretending to be a railroad porter, meets a pretty girl. Then afterward, pretending not to be a restaurant waiter, he bluffs his way to financial and marital success. None of this is nearly as funny as it is intended...
...good reading. But the Songbag is a music book, to be kept on the piano. There are harmonies more tempting than any of the verses. They fairly cry to be sung and the arrangements come from such composers as Leo Sowerby, Henry Joslyn, Alfred G. Wathall, Edward Collins, Ruth Porter Crawford, Lillian Rosedale Goodman. Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel...
Fine Arts 14c. Romanesque Architecture. Monday, Wednesday. Friday at 3 o'clock. Professor Porter. (This course announced to be omitted in 1927-28 is being given as a full course and may, with the consent of the instructor, be taken in either half year as a half course.) (VIII...
Fine Arts 14c. Romanesque Architecture. Monday, Wednesday. Friday at 3 o'clock. Professor Porter. (This course announced to be omitted in 1927-28 is being given as a full course and may, with the consent of the instructor, be taken in either half year as a half course.) (VIII...