She remembered being approached by a white-haired porter, wearing a gold medallion and a white coat, as she walked to the television room one evening after her surgery.
An elegant, all-female cast of travellers, who could be seen through the train windows, descended on to the station one by one, each accompanied by a uniformed, white-gloved porter carrying her handbag and luggage.
It did offer a white-gloved porter who escorted passengers to their cabins, outstanding food -- carefully prepared and served and (happily) not available steaming away on a 24-hour buffet -- and a cozy sense of being part of a seagoing community.
Outside, white-uniformed porters scurried around with overloaded trolleys of luggage; inside, the gleaming marble lobby was teeming with people.
Ashok, our cook, a good-natured man in his late 30s, prepared excellent Balti dishes, slaughtering the three white chickens the porters had carried for us in a cardboard box.
Two porters wearing white Ghandi caps introduce themselves.
Later, I was told there was a rumor among the porters that two white guys had showed up to buy the mountain.
At his Porter Ranch home, red, white and blue banners will fly.
On Keene's first night at Corpus Christi College — in the "coldest rooms in Cambridge," he was told — a porter brought him a dinner of whitefish with a white sauce and white potatoes and white cabbage on a white plate.
The only clue as to what lies inside is a huddle of small, black vans with the words 'Net-A-Porter' picked out in white.
Over dinner (salad, a crab cake and white wine) on a recent evening at Porter House New York in Manhattan, Ms. Behar said, "Someone once told me I'm still teaching, only now I have a bigger classroom".
