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...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...
...interesting summary of the careers of the Cologne officials of the Separatist "Government" was given by the Rhineland correspondent of the London Times: "Chief of Police-Joseph Heimann, assistant waiter, three times sentenced, including a sentence of five years' imprisonment for highway robbery. Public Security-Johann Nowack, shoemaker, four times convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for manslaughter. Religion and Education-Alex Henderkott, keeper of disorderly houses, 22 convictions. Health-Heinrich Groll, manservant, twelve convictions. Traffic-Johann Paffenholz, messenger, 23 convictions. Art-Ludwig Schulz, trumpeter, 13 convictions. Guardian of the Poor-Ferdinand Graf, painter and decorator, six convictions...
...ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux pas as that of the man who, pointing to an item on the menu, asked for "Some of this please" and received the answer "The orchestra is playing that now, Sir". Or one might even join that more exclusive group, the waiters. For Mr. Britten reports that those now on the ship are not much better off than the passengers. The head-waiter himself had to apologize for his failure to interpret properly an order of "gigo de pouillac, Boulanger...
Penniless, he was forced to work his way through college as a dishwasher, waiter, etc. In the intervals of studying 14 hours a day, he became acquainted with a group of delightfully crazy anarchists and socialists, carried the soap-box from which they poured forth extraordinary denunciations of capitalism, marriage, etc., and, later, passed the hat. He was clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu...
...waiters selected for the trip who will leave this afternoon for Red Top are: W. B. Pringle Jr. '25, head-waiter; R. F. Burke '25; C. L. Dane '26; Cornelius DuBois '26; J. H. Durgin '26; R. A. Jones 3d '26; K. D. Mann '26; F. S. Moseley '26; B. A. Wallingford '26; A. T. Wells...