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Admitting that she had no complaint against the Harvard Freshmen, Catherine Warner, ex-Union waitress, assailed the harsh disciplinary conditions in the Freshman dining hall in a statement to the CRIMSON last night. The bombastic reports which have been appearing in the Daily Record were over-emphasized, she asserted, but maintained that they were based on facts, although she had not believed that they would be taken so seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAITRESS WANTS FAIR PLAY FOR UNION HELP | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songbook | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...Only one waitress did not scream. Her name was Minerva, and she was a nice waitress. It was a mouse in the Eliot House Dining Room, yes, a real wild mouse. No one knew what to do. One suggested that the Head Tutor be called. Another thought the animal ought to be done away with. He was cruel. In the meantime one of those men waiters who wear white coats and carry the really heavy dishes tried to grab the little mouse. But the mouse was under a table where a man from O entry was sitting. The man waiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...comely brunette waitress this week resigned her position in the Union Dining Hall, after Miss Florence Murray, headwaitress had required her to take the curls out of her hair, because she looked "too much like a Hula-Hula girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/17/1934 | See Source »

John Jacob Raskob rose from a meal in a little Sonora, Tex. restaurant, handed the waitress a $20 bill. "Keep the change," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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