Word: headwaitress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table, being largely composed of hardened biologists, was indulging in a scientific and more-or-less detached spirit of free inquiry when disaster suddenly loomed in the person of the headwaitress. Determinedly she scooped up the startled cockroach and aimed him unerringly, as one spectator thought, at his unprotected face. But, alas, such was not the case. Oh miserable fate, he was immersed and died a dreadful death in a cup of coffee-colored fluid...
...reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them. Mrs. Smith referred the committee to Housemaster Greenough, who after investigating the cost and utility of chopsticks, agreed to the proposal...
...comely brunette waitress this week resigned her position in the Union Dining Hall, after Miss Florence Murray, headwaitress had required her to take the curls out of her hair, because she looked "too much like a Hula-Hula girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite...
...beer in the houses only if separate tables were set up for those over twenty-one, and all others were rigidly barred from them by the dining hall administration. Little imagination is required to see that this would be an awkward and an undesirable rule; the spectacle of a headwaitress making discreet inquiries of even the least of her wards, the hand raised in warning, and the embarrassment that would ensue, are enough to mark this expedient for oblivion...
Married. Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake, 76, of the 2nd Colorado Congressional District, rich beet-sugar advocate; and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, 32, onetime headwaitress at the George Washington Inn; in Washington. Divorced. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman, godson of the late President Jefferson Davis of the U. S. Confederacy; and Marcelle Jenny Favrel Cohn (Marcelle Chantal), French cinema and stage actress, his second wife (first wife: Florence Bottomley, daughter of Britain's late Publicist Horatio Bottomley). Mutual charges: that she played in the cinema against his will; that he liked other women, stood...