Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...large enough to encourage one to run the risk of injuring his eyes. To turn the gas on a trifle more would increase the expense only in a slight degree, while such action would redound to the credit of the Director who should propose it, and of the head-waiter who should carry...
...hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...
...understand that in two cases at least, during the present week, the head waiter at Memorial "has not had time" to respond to the request of boarders for information in regard to the food there served. We would mildly suggest that it is his business to have, or to make, time for such purposes, and that any failure in this respect entitles him to severe reprimand...
...best way to administer the reproof is without rudeness, and it appears to us that the sending of the head-waiter to request the removal of the obnoxious tile is a perfectly polite and gentlemanly manner of effecting this, and that it ought to be put into practice in every case where such a breach of etiquette occurs...
...waiters, it has been conclusively demonstrated that the number now employed is fully as large as is consistent with an unconfused and orderly system of service; there are brief or no delays in serving the different courses in their proper times, and whatever exceptional delays have been caused in the past were due to defective dummy or other kitchen arrangements for sending up the food into the hall, and not to a lack of waiters. The result, then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures...