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...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...considered chic to haggle with the waiter over the fact that he seems to have multiplied my check instead of adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Stop right there. Who said anything about reasonable? Give the waiter 20%, the captain a dollar or two dollars, the hatcheck girl 25 or 50?, the powder-room attendant a quarter, the doorman a quarter and the beggar in front of the door a quarter-then switch with the beggar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...suppose," said the critic wearily, snatching a highball from a passing waiter, "that is why the novel is called The Gauntlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & James Street | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...chickabiddies of the club, who had been complaining that Ruth had not been forceful enough in presenting their case, wondered whether they had not underestimated their president. She has been underestimated before. She likes to tell about the morning she slipped into a hotel suite under a waiter's arm, and made herself an unwelcome third party at Jimmy Cromwell's breakfast with Wife Doris Duke (who was wearing a sable coat and hair curlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Those Rumor Mills | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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