Word: waitering
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...lights turn down and a waiter begins to mop the floor. The Vagabond gets up, puts on his hat and coat, and goes out. A cold rain is falling on Mt. Auburn Street...
...supporting cast was somewhat less distinguished, although honorable mention should go to Frederick Miller, who was outstanding as the detective novel-reading waiter...
From his new restaurant, in which the current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross...
...Scotland Yard's smartest inspectors told a Brighton Coroner's Jury last week that, as for Corpse No. 1, they have not been able to determine how, when or where she met Death, or who she was. As for Corpse No. 2, the acquittal of the Dancing Waiter has left Scotland Yard with no candidate for the murderer of Violette Kaye. Said imperturbable Sir Bernard Spilsbury, frankly baffled, "I find myself unable to reach any conclusion...
...London's public schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines...