Word: counterman
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...brought along a beautiful Adams House sophomore who was working as an intern at the local public television station. "What an interesting restaurant," she said as we walked in, picking up the tail end of the morning's boxing seminar. I smiled and bid the counterman to throw the brisket on the slicer...
...this day, did Harvard, which now finds itself tied for third with Brown and Penn a mere two weeks after its Dartmouth triumph had catapaulted it to the top. Like the counterman at The Butcher Shop, the Crimson couldn't cut the mustard...
PROVDIENCE, R.I.--While figuring out how much change he owed a customer who had forked over $5 for a $1.97 purchase, the smock-clad counterman at The Butcher Shop on Elmgrove Street suddenly stopped and declared to a partisan Harvard audience here Saturday afternoon, "I've just got this feeling Brown's gonna lose...
Fortunately for The Butcher Shop, the counterman makes better turkey sandwiches than he does football predications, for a few blocks down Elmgrove Street a few hours later, Brown not only didn't lose, but in front of a standing room only Homecoming Day crowd of 17,000 at Brown Stadium, it exposed a Crimson outfit that, it can now be safely stated, is only mediocre at best...
...Harvard Square Dance" number a transposed Harvard law school professor barks out legalistic calls to his dancing chorus to counterclaim left and counterman right, find a loophole, swing your silent partner, change a venue and make an allegation, waking the dancing drones of the cast for this one number. But the cast doesn't stay awake long, probably because they're tired of parading around a stage. Most of the songs serve as an excuse to bring out the full chorus, and few of the melodies sustain or deserve such a stampede...