Word: doorman
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...myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh and I spurred after the beast, which I captured. Captain Lowenstein got up uninjured. At present he is being sued by a French doorman whom he hit in the jaw (TIME, Nov. 8), and two French detectives are in Manhattan tracing $600,000 worth of gems of which his wife was robbed last summer...
...Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar...
...studied biology. Harvard aside from planning a new chemistry laboratory and presenting to the world each year more and more contributions of research could never stress science. And as for the necessity of standing in with the fourth estate the CRIMSON has had to procure the assistance of a doorman to keep the crowd of administrative officers from filling the building during business hours...
...Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life of the Man Who Shines Your Shoes," "Help the Elevator Boy on His Way Up?" Will hotels display the admonition: "Let Your Barber See Europe?" For 21 years one George Wagner has shaved the face of William H. English, Manhattan banker...
...exclusive Carlton Club, London, there emerged one evening last week that arch Tory, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks. Suddenly a strident horn squawked, a raucus brakeband squeaked, a diminutive two-seater taxi clattered up to the curb. "Jixie! Jixie, sir?" cried the driver. Scandalized, the Carlton's imperious doorman motioned this hawker of transportation to move on, summoned the Home Secretary's motor. Frigid with annoyance, Sir William Joynson-Hicks rolled away. At least he appeared frigid. He is popularly supposed to resent the nickname "Jix" applied to him by vulgar plebs. He is alleged to resent still more...