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...There are other references to the Fellows' table in 1674 and 1682. In 1685 Chauncy was appointed 'a Waiter at ye ffellowes table,' and Dasset 'a Wayter at the Schollars, table.' In 1719 Tutor Flynt was 'allow'd upon the Consideration of his Bodiely infirmity to live out of Commons, he taking care to be present in the Hall at Meal-times as there may be Occasion.' In 1734 fellow-commoners 'Shall have the priveledge of Dining & supping with the Fellows at their table in the Hall, and Shall be excus'd going on errands, Shall have the title...
...Theatre. While he was ill in Yalta, writing stories "feebly, sometimes not more than five or six lines a day," she went on playing her roles and corresponding with him about the child they were expecting. But Olga Knipper had a miscarriage, and the Chekhov who plays a waiter in this picture is not-as the arrogance of the famous name he uses without modifiers seems to proclaim-Chekhov's son, but Chekhov's nephew Mikhail. It is an earnest but not very adept story of the hatred of privilege that smoldered so long in the hearts...
...months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
...good friend and Palo Alto neighbor, Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover and other members of the Bohemian Club relish, among other famed Folger stunts, his dialog between two Chinese missionaries. Another famed Folgerism: preventing Morris Gest from making an after-dinner speech by appearing disguised as a voluble German waiter and claiming to be Max Reinhardt, the Miracle...
...Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora...