Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change-it ranges from a hatchick's friendly pat on the shoulder to the Greenwich Village waiter who pursued a nontipper out into the street crying: "No tip! No tip!"-employees around the country have by now established their own argot. A nontipper is universally called a "stiff," while in Boston he is also a "fishball." in New Orleans a "frog," in Seattle a "mossback," in Kansas City a "clutch," in Chicago a "snake" or a "lemon." Someone free with money is a "live one" ,or a "mark...
...Palmer House in Chicago, a convention city of great tipping expertise, a guest wearing crepe-rubber soles or a golf hat is marked down as a stiff; if his shoes are highly polished and he carries an attache case, he is a live one. Among the best tippers, say the Chicago experts, are furniture men, restaurateurs, clothiers and Shriners; the worst are doctors, Lions Club members, traveling salesmen and politicians. Cadillac owners and people with lots of luggage tend to be poor tippers. And perhaps no one is held lower than the "sanitation specialist." the hotel guest who hides...
Grand Illusion. Ironically, notes a Detroit restaurateur, a well-known stiff often gets better service than a mark, because he is considered a challenge, and waitresses will do everything but tuck his napkin under his chin to see if he can be unstiffened. This points to the larger fact that trying to buy service through tipping is an illusion. The nouveaux riches, or Willis Waydes, have always been far less well served than the notoriously careful aristocratic rich, celebrated in O'Hara. The way some people tip at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, it is easy to see that...
...Oxford-Cambridge track team may still give the Harvard-Yale squad some stiff competition tomorrow in the Stadium, but the English will have to look better than they did during the weekend they just suffered through...
Through it all, Tony kept a stiff, smiling upper lip. His popularity took a turn for the better when he took an unpaid, five-day-a-week job in a design center, despite his rather nebulous assignment: studying methods of consumer product testing. But the real breakthrough came when Buckingham Palace let Tony present the prizes in a schoolboy photographic contest in London. Delighted to talk on a subject he knew intimately, Tony wrote his own speech, delivered it well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent...