Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heard a waitress crack, when a soldier complained of cold soup: "No wonder. It's been waiting for you for two years...
...Clinic gives "student menace" cases special atention. Any waitress or other dining hall employee who has a communicable disease, such as a cold, is considered a monace to the health of the students. With advice and pay from the Clinic, the patient must stay off the job until recuperation is complete. When an employee has been ill, before he can return to work he must submit to a checking over by the doctors at the Clinic...
When asked about the effect of the Summer School on business, the waitress of a chain cafeteria looked out into the room full of soldiers and sailors and said, "We ought to change our name to 'The Armed Forces Canteen...
Largesse. In Manhattan, an unemployed waitress perched on a window sill, showered $14-worth of nickels, dimes, quarters to passers-by in the street. She explained to police: "I felt sorry for those poor men." An indignant waiter sputtered that the largesse was his cache of tips...
Handles. In East St. Louis, Edward J. Japps changed his last name to Sinai. In Birmingham a waitress whose first name is Pearl hoped to become a Navy mascot: her last name is Harbor...