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...with occasional visits to cinemas and trips to Coney Island (funpark) until their last month in town. Then a mishap befell them, upset their finances. "We went to a place with some girls," said Fernando, "and ordered wine. We didn't think that would cost much. But the waiter brought champagne, and after that the girls ordered more. The evening cost us $95. American bandits are worse than the American conception of Mexican bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disaster at Sea | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., William Muller, 21, a Manhattan waiter, was apprehended removing nickels from a telephone booth. William Muller confessed he had stuffed napkins in the coin-return slots of 40 pay stations, had made regular rounds to pull out the napkins, remove the accumulated coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Matches | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Russian waiter . . . nonchalantly approaching an elderly American gentleman . . . who has been waiting for one hour to have his order taken . . . and asking for a light for the cigaret that dangles from his nether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Laugh--And Keep Ready! | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...traditions of Magdalen College; they are named after men who were an integral part of a more democratic world. It would be a fitting tribute to them if the new houses be made more American than the first two units. If but three houses should adopt the student waiter system, there would be employment for sixty or more undergraduates to whom work is the only means to education. Not only that, but a lesson in democracy would be taught both to waiters and diners. Harvard's roots may extend to England, but her nourishment comes from a more simple society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT WAITERS | 2/14/1931 | See Source »

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