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...married rich Brazilians. Since he brought only uniforms (he did not know where he was going when he first got his orders) and there are many occasions in Rio where officers appear in civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas in bed with desarranjo (bowel discord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wincheil in Brazil | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...rupees - Second bill from Cecil (August 2 -September 7). The Cecil is an island of Paradise in a political hell. On a cool white verandah the rulers of the British Raj sit sipping chota pegs and singing for the "kipnagar" (waiter) and talking about India as if it were something very far and remote and inconsequential in their personal lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Count Me In (music & lyrics by Ann Ronell; book by Waiter Kerr & Leo Brady) has Charles Butterworth and Luella Gear (both accomplished comics when they are given half a chance), the nimble dancing feet of Hal Leroy, a fast-paced, fine-feathered chorus and an estimated $100,000 worth of trimmings. What makes it commonplace is its tunes. What bends it over double and finally lays it out flat is its book (about a family who are all in the war except Papa): it stupefies with as dull a book as any in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Musicalamities | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...dining room he noticed two people standing at the stamp table. One was wearing a waiter's uniform; he said he wanted to buy some stamps before the door closed. The other was Ted, whom he noticed giving two dollars and grabbing a white pledge card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 8/19/1942 | See Source »

Worked Under Waiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEINSDORF TO SPEAK TODAY | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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