Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressagent told the story, roly-poly Don Vicente Miranda, onetime waiter who now owns Mexico's swankest nightclub, El Patio, lay abed one morning last week and pondered on the world's sad state. Everybody, he decided, was tense and nervous. Then he bounded out of bed with a plan. He would soothe the world with mole, the marvelous Mexican sauce based on chocolate and chile...
...Just then," said Mrs. Thomas, "a waiter came up and knocked the cup of coffee the President was holding out of his hand. The President was real nice about it. The waiter-yes, he was colored-was so apologetic it was pathetic. The President said: 'That's all right, Pete.' He's so human...
Emphasizing that student waiters are entitled to the same food that other undergraduates eat, Holt urged that any employee who arbitrarily withheld food from a waiter be reported...
...Carroll, headliner of the production, played the part of the Waiter-a typical Shavian member of the lower classes, who knows his place in society and is anxious to guard its importance. Tom Holmore was superbly British as Valentine, superbly 'supermanish' as the male of intellect powerless in the tentacles of his corresponding female's life force. Pat Kirkland was nicely vivacious, if slightly more American than the rest of the cast, as the younger daughter, Dolly. Her youthful brother, Philip, was played with a nice combination of exhuberance and English stage presence by Nigel Stock...
...Moral? Next day, Loretta'Young divulged her sources: the executive's shoes story came from a U.S. woman correspondent (who, apparently, doesn't know that coupons aren't required for resoling shoes). The chocolate-bar-and-piteous-child incident was told her by a British waiter, whose little boy had shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said...