Word: waitering
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...lost. The Republican gave it all he had. He put up signs that said "Zoom with Zumwalt," staged a 30-hour sit-in outside the office of the Board of Election Commissioners to emphasize his demands that police protection be provided at every polling place. A red-jacketed waiter served Zumwalt a steak dinner in the lobby, where the candidate spent the night...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...
...There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore's saloon...
...auditioned by Producer David Susskind, stretch from Washington, D.C., to the state of Washington, and their repertory has a still wider reach-from Euripides to Beckett. Last week the guest company was Chicago's Hull House Theater, their offering was Harold Pinter's demanding The Dumb Waiter. And their rendition? So stunningly effective as to be worth the series' syndication price alone...
...quit school after the eighth grade, eventually made his way to New York. Nicknamed "Big Red," he was a gangling zoot-suiter who fancied yellow-toed shoes and straightened his hair with lye in a scalp-searing process called "conking." He worked briefly as a waiter at Small's Paradise, still one of Harlem's top nightspots. But an honest dollar was not for Malcolm Little. He was caught pimping on the side and fired. He thereupon turned himself into a full-time hustler whose specialties were fixing up white men with Negro whores and Negro men with...