Word: doorman
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...Capitaine. In Manhattan, the FBI suggested that the Monte Carlo night club ought to change the garb of its doorman because the French Government had protested that he was always getting salutes from French soldiers...
Next morning a Dorchester valet discovered General Bradley up and dressed at 7:30. Said he: "Good morning, sir. My, sir, but you did a lovely job." The General grinned shyly and said: "Gee, it was nice getting back. The doorman, the head porter and clerks at the reception desk were all awfully nice when I arrived last night...
After having had one last look at the Touraine, I caught my DE at New York, N. Y. Immediately upon coming aboard I found myself in hot water (Cowie coffee to you). As I stepped from the gang plank I saluted the Flag and tipped the Doorman. How did I know he was the Officer of the Deck...
There was one ASOTS casualty last week, Lt. J. F. (Farmer) Shultz. Lt. Shultz, a married man, attempted to crash a Saturday night dance in Cambridge. Being denied entrance because of a failure to possess a ticket, Shultz said, "My face is my ticket." Said the doorman, "Okay, I'll punch it." (You can still see the remanants of th deep black discoloration around the left...
...premeer Wilson Mizner drove up to the Egyptian in a dilapidated Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...