| 单词 | Pullman porter |
| 例句 | Owning a barbershop or a funeral home, working in the post office, or riding the rails as a Pullman porter— those were good black jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My great-uncle Terry, Robbie’s husband, had abandoned a career as a plumber for the same reason, instead becoming a Pullman porter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Terry, meanwhile, had once been a Pullman porter on one of the overnight passenger rail lines running in and out of Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like my father when he’s being a proud Pullman porter seeing the world, and baseball and not cooped up in Tuxedo Junction. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The dining car waiters and Pullman porters knew it too, and they faked their Uncle Tomming to get bigger tips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So its editors worked out an arrangement with Pullman porters. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Eugene O’Neill’s drama about a Pullman porter who becomes an island despot finishes its run. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z If this movie had been made in the ’30s or ’40s, though, the cast would most likely have included a handful of black actors, playing Pullman porters, hotel workers and jazz musicians. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z His father Thomas J. Gray was a proud Pullman porter for 44 years, often working the coveted Super Chief run from Chicago to Albuquerque, N.M. World premiere 'Pullman Porter Blues' opens Rep's 50th season 2012-09-28T17:09:47Z The janitors, secretaries and Pullman porters who, quite simply, found joy against all odds. ‘Thinking of the past, considering the future.’ Inside the African American History and Culture Museum. 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z But, in the late eighteen-eighties, King, going by the name of James Todd and passing as a fair-skinned Pullman porter, fell in love with and married an African-American woman named Ada Coleman. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s about the dead: the field hands, housekeepers, single mothers, sharecroppers, brick workers, postmen, shoe repairmen, Pullman porters and maids — Mrs. Obama’s relatives all, plain people who owned no property and left no writings. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The First Lady's Family 2012-06-15T18:13:58Z In the Pullman porter tradition, let’s unpack this car, shall we? Laughing while black? Not on the Wine Train. 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z His father, a Pullman porter, was often away on cross-country railroad trips, and Morris was raised mainly by his mother, a nurse. Morrie Turner Dies at 90; Broke Barriers in Comics 2014-01-29T01:15:34Z Exhibits examine a seminal worker’s strike and Black employment as Pullman porters. From the South Side to the Loop, Chicago’s Innovative Spirit Thrives 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z There his father, a child of slaves, found work as a Pullman porter. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She dilates on black cowboys and Pullman porters and the authors of the earliest black cookbooks. Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table 2011-01-24T18:22:55Z And during my early days of touring, we always rode the train because my grandfather was a Pullman porter. This Motown star knew that ‘Midnight Plane to Houston’ just wouldn’t do 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Mainstream culture of the 1930s and ’40s had little room for African-American actors; they got work, if at all, playing maids, Pullman porters and buffoons. Remembering "Bronze Buckaroo" Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z A black American with a murderous past and an avaricious present, he’s a former Pullman porter. Review: Emperor Jones, Fearsome and Fearful in a Roaring Revival 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “When you say, ‘Pullman porter,’ you’re talking about a community organizer and a leader,” Collier said. Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z "Pullman Porter Blues" starts with the mournful work chant of a railway chain gang, followed by the breezy singing of Pullman porters, as they apply spit and polish to a snazzy sleeper car. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z Mr. Elder, at an April gathering of evangelical Christians in West Des Moines, Iowa, spoke of his father, the Pullman porter who later became a cook in a segregated Marine Corps unit. Talk of Racism Proves Thorny for G.O.P. Candidates of Color 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier. Charlene Mitchell, 92, Dies; First Black Woman to Run for President 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “It was like turning back the clock to the Pullman porters,” said Wilson, the workers advocate. The past, present and future of tipping and tipped workers in Seattle 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Many settled near Evergreen Cemetery and found jobs working as Pullman porters. They want you to remember Black Boyle Heights: 'We were there' 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He settled in Kansas and found work as a cowboy on the cattle trails and as a Pullman porter on the railroads. These are the real-life figures that inspired Netflix's 'The Harder They Fall' 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Born in Georgia in 1915, he was on his own by age 13, served in the Marines during World War II and worked as a Pullman porter before opening a diner in Pico-Union. Review: Larry Elder complained we've never reviewed his books. So we did, like it or not 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z A few years later, after my grandfather returned, he was hired as a Pullman porter, one of the best jobs available to Black men at the time. Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Family’s History Shows Why. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Exclusively Black men and women and primarily from the South, Pullman porters and maids worked long hours for minuscule wages and depended on tips to earn a living wage. The past, present and future of tipping and tipped workers in Seattle 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z This unionized Black Pullman porter jobs, improving wages and working conditions. So we finally made it through 2020. Um … now what? 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Nobody ever asked Duke where he or the other Pullman porters sent survivors. On a Summer Night in Selma, an Eerie Carnival Comes to Town 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Her father Henry worked as a Pullman porter. Rita Walters, a fierce advocate for equality and trailblazing elected official, dies at 89 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Before he was a criminal, he was a Pullman porter. The Street: the 1940s African American thriller that became a huge bestseller 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Was the idea with the Pullman porters to consciously offer a vision of Chicago that would get people to move from the South, or was it just to give people news? The Exemplary Legacy of the Chicago Defender 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Hunter, who was a contemporary of Bessie Smith’s, was the Memphis-born daughter of a Pullman porter. Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z During World War II, he moved north to the District, where he became a Pullman porter based at Union Station. Perspective | Nine daughters, constant worry, and one life mission — protecting his girls 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z His father was a Pullman porter and later became a longshoreman; his mother was a beautician and government clerk. Ronald Dellums, who entered Congress a firebrand and left a statesman, dies at 82 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Her grandfather, a retired Pullman porter, owned two cars. Harlem Woman Owned 100 Hats. Then She Bought the Factory. 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z And the way they got news about Chicago was that Mr. Abbott, who was the founder, had Pullman porters take the papers on their route to the South and drop them off down there. The Exemplary Legacy of the Chicago Defender 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z A former Pullman porter convicted of murder in the U.S., Eugene O’Neill’s Vexing Outsiders 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Being a Pullman porter was one of the jobs that helped build the black middle class in America, and Pullman porters were key figures in the civil-rights movement. African-American museum’s exhibit is window into life, legacy of Pullman porters 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z His wife, Eleanor, was a nurse, and they shared a house with Roc’s father, Andrew, a retired Pullman porter, and Roc’s little brother, Joey, a musician with a gambling addiction. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Roc’ 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He was promoted to Pullman porter and traveled the country for 38 years as one of the uniformed railway men who served first-class passengers in luxurious sleeping cars. Tennessee mother charged with killing four of her children 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “We’ve designated new monuments and historic sites that better reflect the story of all our people, with monuments to Cesar Chavez, to the Pullman porters in Chicago, and more,” Obama said. Exclusive: Obama on Threats to Nature, Power of National Parks His father was a Pullman porter, and his mother was a housekeeper who became a nurse. D’Army Bailey, judge who helped create civil rights museum, dies at 73 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Nixon, a Pullman porter in Montgomery, Ala., helped organize the bus boycott in 1955, and asked a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. to lead it. African-American museum’s exhibit is window into life, legacy of Pullman porters 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z At the end of the 19th century, he led a double life as James Todd, a black Pullman porter whose wife was born a slave. Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Passing’ Isn’t So Unusual 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In the South, Pullman porters threw stacks of the paper off their trains to the smugglers and newsboys who risked being lynched for selling them. Reinvigorating The Chicago Defender, a Historic Print Voice 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Disgruntled Pullman porters, who served sleeping car passengers, organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union in the 1920s. Senators, congresswoman celebrate Pullman designation 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z They were seamstresses and steelworkers, students and teachers, maids and Pullman porters. In MLK Speech, Obama Recalls His Own 2008 Dream 2013-08-28T22:05:24Z The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was the son of a Pullman porter. African-American museum’s exhibit is window into life, legacy of Pullman porters 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It was either a conductor's or a Pullman porter's official insignia--at a distance Ralph could not tell which. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z This recalls the day when, leaving Gardiner, she was presented with a packet of sandwiches, and charged to have the Pullman porter bring her a cup of bouillon. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z If I get through this alive," he exclaimed, "I'll never see a Pullman porter without wanting to kill him! Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z The natives—he had expected great things of the natives—were remarkably like underdone Pullman porters wrapped in bandana handkerchiefs. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z Then, again, I have always looked upon a Pullman porter as a superior kind of person—certainly among serving people. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z We passed the solicitous Pullman porter, who even offered to take the baby, and we sank finally into our seats in a state of collapse. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z While I deplore the abuses of tipping in this and other countries, I have rarely grudged the Pullman porter his well earned extra quarter. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z The Pullman porter hands your bags to a station porter, and you hand the Pullman porter something which elicits a swift: "Thank you, boss." Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z There was no time to remove it, for the New York train thundered in from the further West, and the ivory flashes of a Pullman porter took over our care. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z You have time to head off night walkers because they have got to get the step-ladder, the Pullman porter is not always asleep, and you hear them as they puff up the stairs. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z Pop Bybee wants us all in the privilege car,” a carnival employe shouted, running down the sleeping car and pausing only to thrust a hand into each berth, like a Pullman porter awakening its passengers. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Perhaps the general run of us have not had the time, nor the inclination, to acquaint ourselves with the difficulties of the Pullman porter's job. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z A Negro banker whom I met in the South told me that he got his start as a Pullman porter. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z A frightened Pullman porter opened the rear door of the sleeper. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories The Pullman porter or the waiter who can succeed in making a patron feel a sense of obligation knows that he has assured a tip for himself. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America Queer," said Boniface, "we gave his hand baggage to the Pullman porter, as directed, but his trunk is there yet. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Occasionally one finds some trouble in keeping ahead of the Pullman porter in the matter of repartee. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z "That was a close call, though," replied the Pullman porter who had given Mr. Barnes a helping hand, in his desperate effort to board the midnight express as it rolled out of Boston. An Artist in Crime He issued orders to the Minister of the Household as though he were directing a Pullman porter. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China He is "out for his" as eagerly as the waiter or the Pullman porter. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America Fortunately travel was light that night, so the lads had no trouble in getting a section of a sleeper from the Pullman porter. The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice The Wildcat stowed his thousand-dollar-reward letter in the inside pocket of the parade-leading Prince Albert which had seen temporary service as a Pullman porter's uniform. Lady Luck He motioned to the Pullman porter to deposit his luggage on the empty platform; the melancholy bell-notes of the locomotive sounded, the train moved slowly forward. Iole I wonder if I told Chicken Little how Poky frightened the Pullman porter. Chicken Little Jane Jones—The engineer, perhaps, but not the Pullman porter! The New Pun Book The college graduate who, in later life, is a street car conductor, or a Pullman porter, or what-not, has largely wasted the time and money spent in college. On the Firing Line in Education A Pullman porter from the twelve-wheeled battleship on the aft end of the train came forward and encountered the Wildcat. Lady Luck This road, in common with some of the eastern roads employs chair car porters in addition to the Pullman porters. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" He came forth laden, the Pullman porter with him, as the conductor was trolling, "All aboard." Under Fire The Pullman porter is required to hang up copies of the law in his car when it enters South Carolina, and copies of it are displayed on the doors of hotel bedrooms. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' A coal-black Pullman porter who braves the shrieking gale to bring in a tree from the copse along the track. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned An hour later, armed with five ironclad letters, he returned along the route, arriving finally at the portals of the office building on West Adams Street wherein Pullman porters are created from select brunet humanity. Lady Luck On all trains from Salt Lake to Los Angeles there are three or four Pullman porters and one chair car porter. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" Then it was that the initiative of a well-trained Pullman porter came into play. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers There is no essential difference in ability and training between a subway guard and a Pullman porter, but between their union cards lies a whole world. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil I thanked him again, not knowing then what it was to travel in a Pullman porter's closet. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The same Pullman porter, conductor, hotel-waiter, peddler, book-agent, cabman, and others who were formerly a source of annoyance and irritation have been met, but I am not conscious of a single incivility. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature At the car steps he is met by the Pullman porter who relieves him of his grip and assists him on the train if necessary. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" A pretty well-known editor was saved from a mighty embarrassing time; and some other people have been saved from similarly embarrassing situations through the intuition and the resources of the Pullman porter. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers At this instant the curtains of the smoking-room parted and the Pullman porter entered. The Under Dog A red-cap at the station, when he arrived, leaped for his bag, abandoning another which the Pullman porter had handed him. The Magnificent Ambersons "Better pay back what you borrowed of me to fee the Pullman porter," went on his tormentor. The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar The Pullman porter of today must be a very versatile sort of a person, he must have plenty of patience, be a good judge of human nature, quick, kind and observant. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" In accounting for his classmates in the various walks of life, he reported that more than one third of them were settled to the occupation of Pullman porters. A Century of Negro Migration I even looked for him after midnight—not only going through the day coaches, but asking the Pullman porters if such a man was aboard. Tales of the Road "And if you don't let me stand here and give my frank, unbiased opinion of this road, its president, board of directors, stockholders, baggage-men, Pullman porters, and other things thereto appertaining, I'll probably have hysterics." Roast Beef, Medium "Even I don't mind a Pullman porter," finished Aunt Caroline grandly. The Window-Gazer The perspiring porter was trying to be six places at once: somebody has said that Pullman porters are black so they won't show the dirt, but they certainly show the heat. The Man in Lower Ten The Pullman porter came into the car under compulsion of a revolver in the hand of a fourth outlaw, one in a black mask. Bucky O'Connor Maids and scrubwomen were at work under the patently nominal direction of another Pullman porter, who was profoundly enjoying his own affectation of being harassed with care. The Turmoil, a novel Bibbs panted, staring at it, as the white-jacketed twin of a Pullman porter helped him to get out of his overcoat. The Turmoil, a novel "But Pullman porters are not Indians, and even if they were I can't quite see how it affects Benis and his lady secretary." The Window-Gazer |
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