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...business of being a waiter in New York is no joke. Last week one member of the profession was precipitated from the ninth story of a hotel by a group of jovial actors singing "Out the window he must go"; and now comes the still more painful report that sixty others were held up in a cafe and despoiled of $12,000 in tips, a pint of whiskey, and a pair of new shoelaces...
...Hero Waiter. At a Scarborough hotel was found a waiter who would not wait upon bona fide Russian Communists, of whom there were a few at the Congress. For so refusing he was hailed by conservatives as a hero, received 60 letters of congratulation containing numerous cash enclosures...
Tomski. One of those for whom the waiter would not function was Comrade Tomski, loquacious Russian, who expressed gratitude to Britain for allowing him to stay "a whole 14 days in England." Mr. Tomski spoke for three hours in his native tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski...
...soul-sick one called for his bill. It was exorbitant. He seized a femur from the wall. With one blow he smote the waiter senseless to the floor; with another he felled a fellow-drinker who had rushed to the waiter's defense...
...scrupulous courtiers of Louis IV. Once an employe who had been accused of excessive drinking came to him while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations...