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* Similar to the above example, [[Frank Sinatra]] was famous for tipping valets and porters in excess of 100 dollars. Keep in mind that this was at a time when someone working a job like that might make that much in a couple of WEEKS.
* [[George W. Bush]] is extremely personable and gracious to staff, as many wait staff in the DFW can attest. He likely learned it from [[George H. W. Bush|his father]], who is also a very friendly man, especially post-retirement.
* Historian E.H. Cookridge tells of a zig-zag was the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, a client monarch of [[The Raj]]. He was traveling on the [[Orient Express]] to a political conference in London. Along the route he behaved like a true [[Royal Brat]], straining the service with his obnoxious demands for luxury. But when he got to the end he gave the train captain a handful of treasure and told him,"Please give one of these gems to each of the good men who have obliged me and keep the rest..."
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