Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already...
...Dallas, Holland McCombs told the waitress who was serving him-and explaining what the high-cost-of-living had done to her-that he was a reporter. Said she: "Say, you're a smart guy. Why has the cost of living gone up so?" The answer put McCombs behind schedule...
...breeze was blowing in a little stronger now, damp from the water under the Anderson Bridge. "Time for birds on the wing and crew men on the slides," he remembered. And gesturing to the waitress for two more bottles and a couple of hot pastromis, he made a mental note to get his seersuckers out of the moth balls before the end of the week...
...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...
Toothsome. In Uniontown, Pa., a Paradise Restaurant customer looked Waitress Katherine Gaydo up & down, exclaimed, "Gee, you're pretty-good enough to eat," grabbed her hand...