Word: doorman
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...What's salient is that the doorman at the Grille never asked me [to leave,]" Sims said...
...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...
...bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group of 650 local Holocaust survivors, will pay all living expenses for him, his wife and two children over four years. "There weren't too many people who stood...
...time they got in there was a large rush at the door and whoever was in charge of letting people in was overwhelmed and accidentally stamped their hand (this might sound ludicrous, but it appears to me the only possible way the A.D. could explain it without saying the doorman blatantly did something illegal). Once in, however, someone must have suspected they were too young to be drinking and should have said something, taken their alcohol away or at least asked if they were with someone from the College. No one did, however, and the two 16-year-olds were...
...ostensible security measure, the doormen control all the elevators in the building. In theory, a doorman will recognize a tenant and send him to the appropriate floor once he shows up on the elevator camera. Thus, any criminals wily enough to get by us diligent doormen would still be unable to get up to an apartment. In practice, doormen often daydream and forget who has just returned. While I generally can keep track of everyone on the weekends (when there is only a trickle of people entering or leaving at any time), I can get lost in the incessant comings...