Word: waitering
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...amazing thing is that nobody ever really seems to mind. When Marilyn turns on the charm, the affronted waiter forgets his waiting. She once explained the whole situation to a friend. "It's not really me that's late. It's the others who are in such a hurry." The truth is that Marilyn has been so terrified of failure during most of her life that she has often had to screw up her courage for the slightest encounter with the world. Before the least important interview she will put on her makeup five or six times...
...stepped forward briskly to shake hands. "This is an historic moment," said Bulganin, shuffling past the guard of honor. On the train to London there was Château Lafite-Rothschild '50 for lunch, but when Khrushchev asked whether he could take the bottle along with him, the waiter said: "I'm sorry, I can't do that, sir. Regulations." At London's cavernous Victoria terminal Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, towering head and shoulders above B. & K., greeted them with an official smile and a correct speech. Bulganin pulled a speech script...
...doesn't go through with it because nothing had really happened with Mrs. Thicknesse (later Chick decides that an affair is like Turkish coffee: "The trick is to stop before you reach the grounds"). Poor Chick is a loser even in small things. When he chides a waiter with "Look, I distinctly asked for a demitasse. You've given me a large cup," he is coldly instructed: "Just drink a little." Finally, here is Chick Swallow, balding and growing a pot, writing: "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds-they mature slowly." And Nickie, dreamer...
...dinner one night, he commandeered one of the entertainers, pretty, blonde Xylophonist Pauline Joy, and invited her to sit beside him. As Malenkov beamed and flashbulbs popped, Pauline in her tights banged out a selection of Russian folk tunes. After a couple of encores, the courtly Malenkov sent a waiter out to buy her "a large box of chocolates...
...businessman in spectacles put a clarinet to his lips and once again became a famous living trademark. Behind him 13 instruments exploded in the old Goodman theme song Let's Dance, and the guests at the Empire Room's tables began to feel wonderful. A surprised young waiter nearly dropped the filet mignon Benny he was serving. "For this room-so loud!" he whispered...