Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kitchen expenses, the program was commendable at first as a war-time economy. Unfortunately, the program has recently taken on particular significance in the minds of College officials. The claim today is that Radcliffe students learn to assume personal responsibility through the experience of serving as a part-time waitress...
...involved--the number varies from four to eleven for each meal, depending on the size of the dormitory--scurry around the dining room getting in one another's way. The others dry dishes which, if left for five minutes, would dry better in the air. Naturally enough, the student waitress deplores the time she wastes in this fashion and hurries the meal as much as possible. The inevitable result is that College meals are eaten in an atmosphere of great haste, which tends to make them unenjoyable occasions for diners as well as for waitresses...
Cronin, who is now 38, says he takes things more seriously than he used to, and that the same is true of students who have been bending their elbows at Jim's Place in recent years. "These days, when glasses get broken, it's usually because of a waitress' miscue...
...waitress at the Union observed that the average milk drinker "drinks four glasses of milk a meal...
...seems convinced that no one ever had a more difficult time pulling loose from parents. But eventually, on the end of a great rubber band that would occasionally snap her back to St. Louis, she returned to Manhattan alone. She worked as a salesgirl at Macy's, a waitress at Childs, wrote constantly. After several years, the Saturday Evening Post accepted the 36th manuscript she had sent them...