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Alas, all was forever lost. The waiter, a kindhearted man, could not smooth over this atrocity. He simply staggered back as if the father had bitten him in the nose, and blurted out violently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

Yesterday a most innocent pussy strolled nonchalantly into the Dunster House dining room, to see how college boys dine. A sinister conspiracy was slowly unfolded in one corner. And then a waiter, smiling villain, made for the unhappy cat, skillfully disguising his evil intentions. And now comes the horrible part. He grabbed the pleasant little visitor by the nape of the neck and strode heartlessly out into the kitchen. The Pioneers are anxiously awaiting the product of Mr. Verbeck's infernal machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 10/26/1935 | See Source »

Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: New Viceroy; General Election | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage proprietor, a retired traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lawsuit in St. Louis | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Doctor Bock has decided to wait a few days before making a decision about the student waiter petition asking exemption from compulsory exercises until he has had time to observe the situation at first hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waiters Must Wait | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

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