Word: redcaps
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...name is also arguable: it came perhaps from his suitcase-shaped shoes (size 12), perhaps from his early days as a Mobile redcap...
Infraction. In San Francisco, a notice on a Southern Pacific Railroad bulletin board announced the dismissal of "one redcap porter ... for shooting and killing wife; a violation of that part of Rule 801 reading, 'Employees who are . . . vicious . . . will not be retained in the service...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward...
...Read merrily the "Doughboy Dictionary" provided by a London paper, supposedly "interpreting" new U.S. slang to the British. Some definitions were correct. Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer...