Word: doorman
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...Some [fake IDs] are just so ridiculously made," says Kells' head doorman, a large, bearded man named Jimmy, who declined to give his last name...
...rudely shoved me against a wall. I asked why, and he suddenly became aware that I spoke English. He then said, "Use the other exit." And more than once, when carrying a couple of plastic or paper bags on a visit to friends, I have been asked by the doorman not to leave menus in the hallway after I delivered the Chinese food...
...Yadin Shemmer's apartment, I can handle the fax machine in the kitchen, the antique-looking toy cars, the huge red leather couch in the living room. But hardwood floors? In a spacious two-bedroom apartment, in a swanky building on the Upper West Side? A building with a doorman? For a 24-year...
...dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping under boxes and generally surviving on schemes and scams. He's a prodigy, strong and cunning and passionate, but as mired in misfortune as his native land, whose history soon becomes mixed up with...
...sorry," a doorman intervenes, "you guys have to take the stairs." We start climbing. We immediately discover that our time outside has left our knee-joints frozen solid. We simply can't bend our legs. It takes 30 minutes to drag ourselves up to the mezzanine...