Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration of the University and the Cambridge communities, many Radcliffe girls have found themselves baby-sitting for their professors, or serving tea to their classmates or section men. The Bureau keeps a supply of elegant black uniforms, replete with fully white collar and cuffs, for students who take waitress jobs in homes...
...outbursts," and then strangled with cord or rope. One, a woman of 54, turned out to be Ethel Christie, wife of the man who just vacated the flat. She had been dead for four months. The others proved to be a tall, shapely, Irish girl who worked as a waitress in a cheap truckers' cafe, a young Scottish mother of two, and a convent-educated girl who was six months pregnant when she died...
After work, Komar eats in a drab restaurant, chats with the waitress, and goes home to the rooming house in which he has lived for ten years. Sometimes his landlady invites him down for an evening of bridge, and tuna-fish sandwiches. "He was aware of the larger possibilities of life, the beautiful, excruciating entanglements that other people got into, and survived, but these required an enormous effort, and in his observation were rarely worth it; he liked better the passing warmth that asked nothing of him beyond the moment's courtesy or interest...
...never hold him long. To yield to all, said Gertrude Stein of him, is "not to yield at all." The day always comes when he packs up a couple of suits, throws in his stacks of unanswered mail, and heads for the station. A few days later, a waitress in Tucson is apt to find herself in deep conversation with a kindly, grey-haired gentleman from the East; or a bellhop in Paris will note the loquacious American who talks with such intensity in the hotel lobby; or a group of students in Germany will hear a lecture delivered with...
...fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...