Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero Waiter. At a Scarborough hotel was found a waiter who would not wait upon bona fide Russian Communists, of whom there were a few at the Congress. For so refusing he was hailed by conservatives as a hero, received 60 letters of congratulation containing numerous cash enclosures...
Tomski. One of those for whom the waiter would not function was Comrade Tomski, loquacious Russian, who expressed gratitude to Britain for allowing him to stay "a whole 14 days in England." Mr. Tomski spoke for three hours in his native tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski...
...scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations...
...Waiters eight, a feature of the Red Top training scissions for a number of years was formed today, and bids fair to be the best combination to represent the Crimson against the similar Eli organization for some time. Coach Hoover, who rowed in the University crew against Yale last year is stroking this year's Waiters eight, with Coach Spuhn at seat seven, Coach Haines at six, and Coach Stevens at number five. Dr. Harding, crew physician, is at seat three, with Head Waiter Jones rowing...
...swift was the Singing Waiter's rise from Rags to Riches that the reversal hardly lends enough body to his biographer's Cinderella-theme. When Berlin was 19, Nigger Mike discharged him. Within four years, he had written a tune which was played in every corner of the U. S., in Shanghai, Moscow and along the Riviera, which "came in brass across the harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody...