Word: stork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stork's Checks...
Back in the days of Tyre and Nineveh, in ancient Rome and more ancient Greece, the waiters in the early versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...
Hence my complaint about the following misleading statements (TIME, Aug. 7) about the current squabble between New York nightclubs and Mayor LaGuardia's bookkeepers: "At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded...
...should be pleased to invite a crew of TIME'S truth-delvers and fact-finders to station themselves at vantage points throughout the Stork Club and observe with what regularity the bon vivants turn over their checks before removing the rubber bands from their wallets. And the same holds true at all of Gotham's popular watering places...
Trouble, Off & On. But Sherman Billingsley was still tired. He had to pore over thousands of checks and his books to see if he could get himself out of the jam mathematically. And the law loomed just outside the Stork's door...