Word: counterman
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Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...
Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...
Lucky Louis. In Detroit, Louis Gheraze, a restaurant counterman, returned $300 he had found on a train. Canadian Railways rewarded him by making his home town of Bothwell, Ontario, a train stop on his days...
...seems to me the most English place in America." He gave the professional actors a rest and let the Brooklynites speak for themselves. He was about as successful as anyone could be at trying to seize such a slippery phenomenon. Star of the program was an unreconstructed drugstore-lunch-counterman, who spoke his mind in profound Brooklynese regarding some of his more rugged customers...
Then, suddenly, they had come home, and began to feel that they had not been away. When one of them asked a Western Union office for a messenger, the counterman growled: "Don't you know there...