Word: waitresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waitress in Birmingham called out the colored cook to wait on us. The waitress in Anniston let us wait through the fifteen minute rest stop. The waitress in Columbus, Miss. spilled cream all over my brand new overalls. We expected a good whipping or at least a week in jail in war-like Winona, Miss., but they had replaced the cafeteria with vending machines. An ancient, bespectacled colonel offered me a quarter for my front seat as we approached Winona. I declined and he returned to the back of the bus. Jackson, Miss...
...became "the chiffon-light Jell-O pudding and pie-filling girl," toured New York State as Jenny the Genesee Beer Girl for $250 a week, and "that was more money than I thought God had. Right?" While going to classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, she worked as a waitress nights until 4 a.m. "I have a lot of guts," she says, splitting a subtle hair, "but not a lot of courage; and courage is where the money...
From the airport, El Cordobés and entourage drove to a motel to rest. At noon, while 16,000 fans filed into the nearby arena, he was awakened from his nap. His companion, a platinum-blonde waitress from Los Angeles, came in but was gently pushed into a bathroom while the bullfighter dressed...
...those meals that look funny in the movies. The family of four got a table in the U.N. Delegates' Dining Room-and here came the waitress, all snarls, and spilled soup. Crash! Down slammed the food. Zip! It was whisked away before anyone was finished. "And how was the meal, sir?" asked the manager. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, 45, couldn't help blowing off steam, so much in fact that the waitress was summarily fired. And when her case came up for review, Freeman reluctantly confirmed his complaint. She was "very cross, curt and sullen," he wrote...
...Observer's freewheeling columnist tacked into journalism in a typically roundabout feminine way. The offspring of a long line of Presbyterian ministers, she proved impervious to the polish of six secondary schools and Cambridge University, toured the U.S. working as a waitress and short-order cook, then returned to England and became a journalist...