Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential appointee and cannot be removed. Last week Mr. Ickes did the next best thing. He removed James Rohrer, Mr. West's brother-in-law and administrative assistant, transferred his secretary, his stenographer and his messenger to the General Land Office. All Mr. West had left was a receptionist...
...sturdy body bundled snugly against Minnesota's snow, Mrs. Maude Neale Lumsden, 26, of Salmo, B. C., entered huge (500 doctors) and busy Mayo Clinic last week. By & by a trim receptionist gave Mrs. Lumsden an envelope into which X-ray photographers, blood counters, uroscopists, gynecologists, internists and surgeons might insert their judgments of the young woman's distressed abdominal organs. Mrs. Lumsden distractedly examined the figure on her diagnosis envelope. With comprehension of the big number came the inner warmth which all men feel when they achieve distinction. Mrs. Lumsden...
...coats, a disdainful extravagance which causes him to use his footmen instead of the mails for messages to his friends. Lady Sibell, whose mother, the Countess of Beauchamp, is the Duke's sister, had opportunities to learn more about her gay uncle last year when she worked as receptionist in the London hairdressing establishment which the second Duchess of Westminster started after her divorce. What caused the Duke of Westminster's libel suit last week were a few paragraphs which Lady Sibell printed in her regular chit-chat column in Oxford and Cambridge Magazine last month...
...Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon the stage, it is just as appropriately cast. Aline MacMahon, in the rôle which got her a Hollywood contract two years ago, is the cleverest of the three vaudevillains. The incredibly stupid receptionist in the studio lobby is Zasu Pitts. While making vague enquiries about the name of an author who has been waiting to see Mr. Glogauer for four months, she utters genteel moans so sad that they are almost yodels...
...careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...