Word: waitering
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Quebeckers, who as members of the French Canadian minority have a nodding acquaintance with intolerance, applauded Dr. Cannon. Many phoned the Cannons, or stopped them on the streets, to insist that what had happened did not reflect local feeling. A waiter in the hotel whispered to them: "I'm damned glad you won!" Said V Action Catholique: "The case . . . should be brought before the highest courts in the country...
...Your change, senhor," said the waiter, tossing onto the marble-topped coffee table: some aspirin tablets, a string of trolley-car tickets and a postage stamp. For months, metal change has disappeared from Brazil's inflation-ridden economy...
...Tormentors. Edward Waiter, head of the Dachau death camp, shot himself through the heart, still lived, shot himself again through the head and died. Priests refused to touch his body...
...Hungry. In Seattle, short-tempered Host Edward Abraham was accused of baring his teeth before dinner, impulsively chewing both of his dinner guests' ears. In St. Louis, Joe Williams took offense at the restaurant food set before him, hurled the glassware and china at the waiter...
Mississippi-born Playwright Williams has done many things besides write plays. Since graduating from the State University of Iowa, he has been a bellhop, an elevator operator, a movie usher, a teletyper, a warehouse handyman, a waiter and spouter of verse in a Greenwich Village nightclub. He has also changed his name, because he thought his real name, Thomas Lanier Williams, "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps...