Word: doormen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decadent old capitalist custom of tipping is on the rise in the increasingly class-conscious Communist society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income...
...doorman, usually an impressively mustached oldster who expects at least 2 rubles (20?) for opening the door, and is in a position to grant favors, for when the restaurant is full he locks the door and reopens it only as the spirit moves him. Literature and Life suggested abolishing doormen...
...clock on a miserable, sleeting Washington morning last week, a telephone alert went out through the White House. Presidential Secretary Ann Whitman glanced around her desk to make certain everything was ready; ushers and doormen snapped to attention. Down in an elevator from his living quarters, out through a rear door and across the Rose Garden to his office in the west wing came Dwight Eisenhower. The President of the U.S. was working back into a full-time schedule-and hardly had he sat down at his desk than the babble of speculation about his political intentions grew even louder...
...sale was a success. All 265 half-price handbags went in two days. By week's end, more than one-third of the $340,000 worth of china and glass was gone. But the high-priced jewelry was still awaiting takers. On Saturday, black-suited doormen counted 2,400 customers, more than on any October day before...
...hourglass-figured (50 in., 40 in., 50 in.) Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering...