Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money when he was barely old enough to run errands in his native New York City. Because his druggist-father was poor, Clifton Fadiman paid his way through high school by working in an insurance office and selling rare books. At Columbia University he tutored campus numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions. On the side he was a night clerk in a branch post office. Summers he lectured on French Symbolist poets and once translated Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. He aver aged $1,000 a year and earned, in addition, a Phi Beta Kappa...
...that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...driving from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fla. when dusk halted me in the lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn...
...Road. In Raritan Township, N.J., William Schmoldt and his wife, proprietors of a roadside restaurant, had their waiter set up their coffee and cake snack in the middle of U.S. Route 1. No cars had come by the time they were ready for their second cup-if they could have had a second...
...such messages did tall, spectacled, shabby Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, zealous air-raid warden, waiter, and operator of a sailors' boardinghouse, reveal U.S. ship movements to Nazi Intelligence. Spy Lehmitz settled in the U.S. in 1913, worked in the German Consulate in New York during World War I, was classed as a "dangerous alien" but not interned. Naturalized (1924), he went to Germany in 1938, was trained in a Nazi spy school, returned to the U.S. March 27, 1941 ready to work...