Word: waitering
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Back in the early decades of the century, when Victor Herbert was cleaning up year after year and Irving Berlin was still a singing waiter, an unspoken law existed among musical-comedy producers that nobody should ever try anything that hadn't already been worked at least one, and preferably one hundred times. Audiences were confronted year after year, for instance, with elaborate opening scenes in European palaces, full of richly garbed extras extolling the beauty, glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation...
...thus split by doubt and fear and bordered by its neighbors' militant hatreds? The British, who had come to Greece as liberators, had failed. The presence even of a friendly, homesick, token-size British army hurt Greek philotimo (the kind of sensitive self-esteem that makes a Greek waiter deliberately dawdle if he is harshly addressed, and a Greek day laborer feel equal to his King). Others besides Communists hummed the popular Communist ditty: "British, Go from Our Land!" In Athens last week, a fashionable young lady remarked: "It is fashionable to dislike the British...
...Twenty cents," said the waiter, putting two bottles on the counter...
...Sheep's Clothing (May). In Ottawa, on meatless Tuesday, a lunchroom patron thrust a struggling sheep on a pop-eyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
...sell underwear," believes that "to design a liquor ad you should know what it is to feel convivial." The hardest part of his work is to find the symbol which will differentiate one brand of liquor, cosmetics, or fabrics from all the rest. (Examples: Rand's Coronet Brandy waiter, whose head is shaped like a brandy glass, his Stafford Fabrics' patchwork horse...