Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stole his wife) to commit suicide on Christmas eve, and then hypnotizing him out of it, by sheer power of the Tellegen will and smoldering eyes. A high spot is a Greenwich Village ball, in which great fun prevails when one of the revelers spanks the others with a waiter's tray...
...well-tailored, even in Apache disguise. He fights off a band of Apaches known as "the Pack" while they try to smuggle out of France the secret army plans that nowadays replace the child and the papers in well-built melodrama. It is rather like seeing the head waiter at Sherry's stand off a gang of real tough-mugs from the Bowery. One cannot quite believe it. But one feels properly thrilled at the finish when there is an exciting chase through the clouds that transfers the underworld to the upper world. Then it is that active Jack...
...Manus, Manhattan waiter, had a son by his wife "Comrade Fanny." In a steamingly crowded hall, the son was christened Nikolai Lenin Manus, after which his "social-mother," Mrs. Kate Gitlow, mother of the communist leader, Ben, said these words...
...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...
...interesting summary of the careers of the Cologne officials of the Separatist "Government" was given by the Rhineland correspondent of the London Times: "Chief of Police-Joseph Heimann, assistant waiter, three times sentenced, including a sentence of five years' imprisonment for highway robbery. Public Security-Johann Nowack, shoemaker, four times convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for manslaughter. Religion and Education-Alex Henderkott, keeper of disorderly houses, 22 convictions. Health-Heinrich Groll, manservant, twelve convictions. Traffic-Johann Paffenholz, messenger, 23 convictions. Art-Ludwig Schulz, trumpeter, 13 convictions. Guardian of the Poor-Ferdinand Graf, painter and decorator, six convictions...