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They may have a college education (more likely training in a trade, such as typing or minor bookkeeping), but many were just your average shopgirl, telephone exchange operator, hat-check girl, and so on.
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Some eateries, in fact, have eliminated their hat-check gals, with that chore being taken over by the maitre d ', waiters or, at times, even by the owner.
Dan Dorfman: New York Eateries: It's a Jungle Out There! 2009
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He becomes a murder suspect after a hat-check girl he took home is strangled and thrown from a car, and despite an alibi from his sexy next-door neighbor Laurel Gloria Grahame, it's not quite clear whether Steele did or didn't commit the murder.
Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008
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At a signal from the Chairman, his hangers-on would "duke" -- Sinatra's lordly slang for his largess -- the lucky waiters, hat-check girls, doormen and anyone else nearby.
The Point of Tipping 2008
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At a signal from the Chairman, his hangers-on would "duke" -- Sinatra's lordly slang for his largess -- the lucky waiters, hat-check girls, doormen and anyone else nearby.
The Point of Tipping 2008
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He becomes a murder suspect after a hat-check girl he took home is strangled and thrown from a car, and despite an alibi from his sexy next-door neighbor Laurel Gloria Grahame, it's not quite clear whether Steele did or didn't commit the murder.
Films I Love #9: In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) Ed Howard 2008
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I would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former SS monsters
Roy, Leonard Cohen, Meph and the Hat-Check Girl « knitnut.net 2006
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The expenses of a date were as follows: 40 cents for beers, a 10-cent tip for the hat-check girl*, a 10-cent tip for the server, and a 10-cent tip for the washroom attendant who held the towel.
Roy, Leonard Cohen, Meph and the Hat-Check Girl « knitnut.net 2006
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To Joe's left was a check-room with a hat-check girl and the hostess 'stand; beyond those was a curving balcony looking out over the tables, with a few doors leading off of it.
Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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The hat-check girl would have offered him earplugs.
Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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