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...Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
Most notorious of the old-time dives were the Billy Goat, named for its foul smell; the Bull Run, where the pretty waiter girls entertained privately for 25? to $1 ; the Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were...
This means that the Freshmen who does not secure a scholarship or a waiter's job has very little chance of financing his first year unless he has independent resources. He can hardly rely upon a loan from the College, because the average loan to Freshmen amounts to only $83, and during the past year only 49 men received assignments. Officials of the College feel that they should conserve the loan funds for upper classmen because a Freshman has not yet had an opportunity to show whether or not he is deserving, and also because loan funds are revolving funds...
...duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised, Alexander Throttlebottom was finally hauled into the dory after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter by the convention managers who nominated him for Vice President. Next day, equipped with grappling irons and bluefish hooks, he re turned to the scene of the wreck, fished up his fishing tackle (all but his split bamboo silk-wrapped...
...Arnold Scheifer's restaurant in New York, George Frei is the waiter in the alpaca jacket who serves the veal stew, the fried potatoes and the draught beer. He served them last week with a broad and radiant grin. For years he saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week...