Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compromise. In Detroit, when a thug named Blackie held up Waitress Marie Dykes, she talked him into taking a $10 loan, signing an I.O.U...
...Charley Summers returns to England with an ill-fitted metal leg and a battered mind. He visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...
Only the Houses have held Harvard together through 20 stormy years, Provost Buck suggested last night as Lowell House rang in its 20th birthday with a waitress-served dinner and punch "not wholly without appeal...
...Open Hand. In Columbus, Ohio, J. Edward Dunnebacke told the court why he had given a waitress a worthless $10 check as a tip: "I wanted to do something nice...
...like an uncouth beast. I took my coat off. Duty bound, the woman in charge of propriety, etc., came. The old story. I left, unjustly rankled at her (she does what she's told), but, I think, rightfully fed up with this archaic carry-over from the days of waitress service, spats, and ruffles...