Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...
TOMORROW Football In the Yale Bowl: Varsity-Yale1:45 p.m. TODAY Football On Anthony Thompson Field (Armoryville): Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. On DeWitt Cuyler Field: Junior Varsity-Yale Soccer 2 p.m. Near Coxe Cage: Varsity-Yale 2 p.m. Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. House Football On Waiter Camp Field: Eliot-Berkeley (championship) Field 2 2.45 p.m. Winthrop-Davenport, Field 1 2 p.m. Dudley-Trumbull, Field 3 2 p.m. Lowell-Pierson, Field 4 2 p.m. Kirkland-Calhoun, Field 5 2 p.m. Leverett-Dwight, Field 1 3:15 p.m. Dunster-Branford, Field 3 3:15 p.m. Adams-Saybrook, Field...
...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...time, Peter refused the breakfast proffered by his valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...
...food is late or if the Tigers win a football game the immates start banging on their plates chanting for a waiter or counting out a score...