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September. In Lewiston, Idaho, a waitress flatly refused to sell cheese to be taken out of the restaurant, gave in when the customer ordered "two cheese sandwiches - untoasted and without bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Acts for the Waitress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Desperates Grab at Astringosol, Waitresses In Beating Cigarette Shortage | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

...spot habitues advise acting "sweet to the waitress, and maybe she'll come through." If this attack is not successful, someone has commented that at the Wurst House on Boylston Street, you can get a pack of Chelseas from the bartender if you give him, just like with toothpaste, a used and empty package...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Desperates Grab at Astringosol, Waitresses In Beating Cigarette Shortage | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

Technicality. In Lewiston, Idaho, a waitress flatly refused to sell cheese to be taken out of the restaurant, gave in when the customer ordered "two cheese sandwiches-untoasted and without bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 25, 1944 | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...coffee shop he may, if he is lucky, get the 55? a la carte breakfast in less than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Frills | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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