Word: doorman
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...decorator made known his errand at the Lihme apartment building to a suavely superior individual in grey livery, John Healy, stalwart doorman; and was formally admitted. He ascended to the Lihme floor, entered the apartment, halted, gazed awestruck. Gulping with astonishment he called back the elevator man, who summoned blue arms of the law, who brought detectives and newsgatherers in their train. Soon the Lihme apartment-once imposing, now dismaying-was filled with a buzz of talk, excited, threatening, incredulous, ominous. With the aid of stalwart Doorman Healy whose front changed from polite surprise to bitter penitence, the time...
...takes confidence--and much more than confidence. Even the eminently respectable and rehabilitated Parker House and the Victorian solidity of the Touraine yield to the superior glorifications of the Ritz. The ultimate goal of the aspiring undergraduate now changes from being able to chat familiarly with the Copley doorman to possessing sufficient boldness to call the Ritz headwaiter by his first name...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...where did he go then? That was what the police, the dress-suited detectives wanted to know. He had left, the doorman said, in a limousine. The law gave chase, to the limousine, to the charming youth, to the $10,000 bracelet of the doctor's wife which, vanishing from her arm, had caused the hue and cry. They found the limousine in front of a fine house. Thirty armed men forced their way in. "Please do not break anything," said the charming young man. He showed them ledgers filled with "donations" together with lists of the charities...
...Newsstand-Buyer Pope (TIME, Jan. 3) as to only one of his "ten biggest" U. S. citizens - namely Chief Justice Taft. The other nine should be: "Big Bill" Edwards Irvin S. Cobb "Fatty"; Arbuckle Senator Heflin "Pudge" Heffelfinger-* "Phonzo the Fat Man" "Beppo the Big Boy" Elisabeth Marbury, The Doorman at Connie...