Search Details

Word: waiters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...last week 1,870 of the 5,000 had successfully run the gauntlet, and 550 were already in training. Half of these clerical shock troops have had no more than a primary education. One was a coal miner, another a waiter, a third a warehouse clerk. By 1949 the Church of England hopes to have made 2,000 of them into clergymen, at a cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shock Troops | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...wonder is freedom still holding the light- Or is she just calling the waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES: The Question | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...considered chic to haggle with the waiter over the fact that he seems to have multiplied my check instead of adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Stop right there. Who said anything about reasonable? Give the waiter 20%, the captain a dollar or two dollars, the hatcheck girl 25 or 50?, the powder-room attendant a quarter, the doorman a quarter and the beggar in front of the door a quarter-then switch with the beggar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Correct Form | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next