Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Restaurants reported that their customers would have to relearn the habit of eating five courses instead of three. Complained one waiter: "They have forgotten how to eat." Another reason for Britons' timidity: in spite of their delight that the control is gone and with it the house charge, surtax and other added fees, they cannot afford many of the goodies...
...moved away to another group in time to hear one gentleman suggest that someone take a bite out of La Voodoo's bare shoulder. But the suggestion was passed up in favor of the hors d'oeuvres, which a tuxedoed waiter was passing around again...
...What in heaven's name is Chicken Marengo?" whispered the diner, bemused prototype of millions of restaurant guests. "I don't know," his wife whispered back. "Why don't you ask the waiter?" The gentleman looked embarrassed. "Certainly not," he said. "I will order the hamburger steak...
...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...
...animal, sex undisclosed, was using the obsolete dumb waiter as its headquarters, and was able to travel secretly to the various floors of the building at will, by use of the machine...