Word: waitresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Incentive Pay. In Los Angeles a restaurant hung a sign in its window: "Waitress Wanted: Good Wages-Free Meals-Free Bobby Pins...
...astounding increase in purchase of large-denomination bonds by many people was responsible for Lowell's recent record. A waitress bought a $500 bond yesterday. Many students, as well as Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, have made large purchases...
...worked as a waitress in Childs, in a sweatshop, as a nursemaid, a salesgirl, wardrobe mistress in a Minsky burlesque, and for 26 months "wrote, peddled, rewrote, repeddled, without so much as one word of encouragement." Then one day in 1912 she met Editor "Bob" Davis of Munsey's Magazine. " 'Fannie Hurst,' he said, after reading a story I came peddling, 'you can write!' " In the next 31 years she wrote 22 books...
...Funsters in a dining hall selling spree, swept a waitress off her feet to the tune of four $100 bonds. Another resident bought a $500 bond, putting Dunster over this week's quota and this plus other sales equals 45 per cent of her total quota. William L. Sprout '47, is chairman of their drive...