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Word: waitress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...Waitress' Day. In Kenosha, Wis., when Milton Hall, 23, entered her lunchroom and threatened her with a pistol, Waitress Margaret Gresham talked him into pocketing the weapon, treated him to a cup of coffee, then called the police, who promptly came and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...recorded show called Omaha After Dark, Loughnane and Station Manager Todd Storz aired some of the gleanings of the remarkable wristwatch, brought to listeners the actual click of illegal dice, the clink of ice in illegal highballs, and the voices of illegal nightclub owners and employees. One waitress was heard to reassure Loughnane that her place had not been raided in more than a year; an owner answered a question about gambling by saying: "Sure, downstairs. Just go on down. You know everybody down there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Real Thing | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplanted Gland | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Nice Boy | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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