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Said a Bronx waiter: "First I'd grab my false teeth. . . . If there was time, I'd then put on my pants. And if I still had a little time, I'd kick my mother-in-law in the shins so she couldn't escape. No, that's not cruelty; that's justice...
...like a roll-call of the great and near-great of our times : Admiral (then Captain) Ernest J. King and William Ran dolph Hearst ("I think the less said about my college career the better"), Irene Castle and Adolphe Menjou ("I have never up to the present been a waiter in real life"), H. G. Wells and Billy Rose ("I would rather be labeled 'dwarfish' than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all") - Bernard Baruch and Franklin Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, Rudy Vallee, Robert L. Ripley, Harold Ickes, Bing Crosby, Walter Lippmann, Bob Hope, Henry Wallace, William...
...shoe; his shrewd and educated political sense guards him against assuming any more sophisticated manner. On his campaign train he joined newsmen at poker almost every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...
...grocery was gobbled up by a supermarket. In quick succession, he became a singing waiter, a night-club master of ceremonies and a cheese salesman. Starting on Broadway in a play which failed to open, he proceeded to parts in six quick flops and a hit, Saroyan's Time of Your Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell...
Back in the days of Tyre and Nineveh, in ancient Rome and more ancient Greece, the waiters in the early versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...