What does this hieroglyph mean?

A story about the way he handled a threatened strike at his Hawthorne track was indicative of the roughshod way he did business. He invited four strike negotiators to his office, where he dealt a knockout blow to each, laying them out unconscious on the floor. Then he went outside and announced that the pending strike was off.

We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

And you think you're so clever and classless and free / But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see