Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have shined his shoes with...
...than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...
...real surprise was the committee's date bureau, which had twelve couples paired at the last count, and which was turning applicants away only two hours before dance time. Immense satisfaction was voiced by the dozen male participants, three of whom were members of the Dance Committee...
...unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...
...downtown Boston, Bob Hart and Steve Hebdon found the service very poor at the date bureau. They finally left with two WAC officers who apparently were also disappointed with the service...