Word: waitering
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Once a youth-no common youth-wore a soiled waiter's apron as he hustled behind the counter of the old Indianapolis Union Station. People called him "Tom." Even Republicans liked this jovial pushing Irishman, were glad to help him when later he bought the eating-house, hustled still more, bought the Grand Hotel. More people called him "Tom," so he entered politics, became identified with every state campaign for 20 years and more. Indiana took to its dusty bosom this free-and-easy politician without any "dog"* who accepted and played politics with good-humored cynicism...
Last week able Jeffersonian Taggart could not decide whether or not to sue. Onetime waiter and still professional politician, yes; professional gambler, no. So he sat on his Indiana front porch, rocked...
...ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...
...more money? The Yeas have hung up signs in their restaurants, boot-parlors, or what not, saying "Please do not tip," or "Our Employes Are Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life of the Man Who Shines Your Shoes," "Help the Elevator Boy on His Way Up?" Will...
...flat in Evansville, Ind., a girl was writing a letter: "If you don't give me $100 to get the marriage annulled . . ." the pencil moved scratchily over the cheap paper. Two weeks ago this girl, one Gladys Hines, 19, white, married William Idi, a young Japanese waiter. She was not very pretty; she wanted a man; Waiter Idi was all right, as Japs went. ". . . I'll kill myself. Father says that if I married a Japanese, he would send both of us to jail. I don't want you to go to jail, sweetheart, and would...