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Word: busboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western edge of Batavia, N.Y., the breakfast order of poached eggs, toast and coffee was routine. But the customer obviously was not. While his eggs poached, he table-hopped to shake hands. He ducked behind the counter to greet the cook, the counterman, the waitresses and the busboy. For each, he flashed a broad smile, his forehead crinkled into wrinkles. "Hello, I'm Nelson Rockefeller," he said. "I'm running for Governor. It's a real pleasure to say hello to you." When the eggs were served, the candidate invited himself up to a table of sleepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rocky Roll | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fireside Message | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...native land. The son of a clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Down But Not Out | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...side. From Rebecca's father, Orson Welles, whose headquarters have long been in Europe, came word that he would gladly play nanny to both children until the crisis was over. In a White Plains hotel suite, Haymes, Rita and Khan had a cozy chat. Reported a busboy who had just served them chicken sandwiches: "Everybody seemed happy." A few hours later, everybody was. Finding no evidence that Rita was a bad mother, the judge gave Rebecca and Yasmin back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...inequity lingers on. And the officials justify their inaction with worthy sentiments about not wishing a cut in the wages of town boys. The College workers, of course, do not advocate such a cut, either. Ninety-four cents an hour plus a meal is a fair wage for the busboy job. The student merely wants his pay raised to this approved level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gravy Train | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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