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THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE
Hello. Hello. Hel-lo! Hey, girlie, I want to get hold of one of your bright young bell-boys.
Oh you will, will you? Well say, I'd rather have you come up yourself!
Oh they do, do they! Well, I ain't one of that kind of guys.
No, I ain't! But say, girlie, if you happen to get kind of lonesome along about quitting-time, you just come up here to 232 and I'll introduce you to a few princes.
Oh is that so!
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Say, jeeze, these telephone girls are too fresh for any use. That is a kind of a cute kid though, that number two.
Well, as I was saying—
Say, for God's sake, ain't that bell-boy ever coming? If I was running a hotel—
Not that I pretend to be any John Bowman or Statler or anybody like that, but if I was running a big hotel, I'd have—