Word: receptionist
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From the moment he arrived in Cambridge, things had not gone well for Armand. A letter sent to his home informed him that his room for the year was University Hall 5. Armand reported there and greeted the receptionist...
...Miss Fickett, Dean Rosovsky's receptionist," she replied...
When it comes to curves, Loni Anderson, the shapely, savvy receptionist of television's WKRP in Cincinnati, does not have to take a back seat to anyone. Who better then to play the title role in Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s, a CBS-TV movie about the cinematic sex queen. Anderson, 33, at 36-24-36, is somewhat shy of Mansfield's more pronounced 40-18-36 but hardly needs Body shaping for Women, the recent how-to book by her co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Jayne's second husband, Mickey Hargitay...
Behind the labyrinth of burnt-orange desk dividers sat many of the most competent and respected journalists in America. At any given time about 600 people worked on the third floor. As a replacement for the receptionist during two weeks of the summer, I greeted many of these people every morning when they arrived at work. I got the feeling that if I didn't greet them with a smile and a "good morning" they would only tell time by the edition of the paper that sat on their desks...
...humor at all. It might be called the humor of recognition, a humor that plays upon collective anxieties of a tribe like the Law School by depending on the mere mention of names associated with the collective experience. There is nothing intrinsically funny about "LSAT scores," "Langdell receptionist," or "Roberto Unger." These things make law students laugh the way an itch makes you scratch; it is closer in its workings to irritation than humor...