Word: waitering
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...Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois went to Dublin, got a job as a waiter, married an Irish girl named Bridget Elizabeth Dowling, had a son, two years later deserted wife and child to go back to Germany. Willie grew up to be a good-looking lad with a slight brogue and not much luck. His worst luck, he said last week, was his name...
...cooks have had long reigns. Greatest of them was the great Copper, who retired in 1927 after cooking Paderewski's meals for 25 years. After a midnight meal in his private car on some Midwestern siding, Paderewski once called the waiter to him. "Tell Mr. Copper," he beamed, "that the meat, the vegetables and the dessert were excellent." The waiter went out, then reappeared. "Mr. Copper said to tell you," he reported, "that the soup was excellent...
...West Virginia, Illinois at War-boom wages. In 1917 he was not drafted for the army because he came from an enemy country. When he developed sciatica in 1918, he was affluent enough to retire to the baths at Hot Springs, Ark. for two years. In 1920 he turned waiter, soon owned his own restaurant in Hot Springs. He bought real estate and mortgages, had $6,000 when he was arrested in 1934. He no longer has that much. His rise to fame as a test-case radical has cost him dear...
...waiter, whose patient pencil had been long poised, could not smooth over this atrocity. Generations of Copley breeding fell from him; he staggered back as if the aunt had bitten him in the nose and blurted out violently...
...lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...