Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled that of the most decrepit old piano...
...suppose so from the fact that it was brought on swimming in that liquid, and that it was impossible to taste anything else. That the dinner was not wholly acceptable to the colored gentlemen who attend to our wants, we have evidence from the remark of our own waiter, who said that "he could n't eat that fish noway." Upon hearing this we banished all fears of seeming too fastidious, and came to the conclusion that if the darkies could n't eat what was set before us, we were justified in making a complaint...
...moment. I started up and looked about. I was in my bed, and the condition of that article of furniture reminded me of scenes that I had witnessed on Transatlantic steamers during storms. Some one was drumming at the door. I opened it. It was the deaf and dumb waiter. I was alive and saved...
...Bowdoin Orient is improving. In speaking of the last summers sensation at the White Mountains, the student waiter, it says: "He learns to hand a chair with quiet dignity, and to present a plate of soup with courtly grace; and at night, when the dishes have been washed, and the napkins all folded, he clothes himself in a broadcloth coat and joins the ladies in a social dance. His bearing throughout is one of modest independence and dignified humility. The ladies beam upon him, - it is a life of romance; the guests fee him, - it is a life of profit...
Unless they call you Waiter...