Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score-for the rain-then-shine California romance of an aging Italian winegrower and the young waitress he has courted by mail-is at its best where it is lightest or most lightly lyrical. There is a male quartet cocking a very male eye in Standing on the Corner; there is the sheer Broadway frolicking of Big D, with its salute to Dallas; the gay lesson-in-English of Happy to Make Your Acquaintance; the Verdi-gurdy high spirits of Abbondanza and Sposalizio. But there is also the lyrical How Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness...
...Place, the new order took the form of a mimeographed warning taped to the wall at each booth. It reads: "In order to facilitate serving please have your identification cards ready for the waitress to see. If you are under 21 do not attempt to order alcoholic drinks, as you will not be served...
Tony, a balding Mario Lanza who didn't speak much English, had come over from the old country and made a killing on the California wine market. When the pressure of business subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed...
Combined Operations. In Phoenix, Ariz., after he held up the House of Jazz and stuffed $270 in his pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...
...Victim. In Clinton, Tenn., returning from the kitchen, Waitress Pearl Hogue spotted a would-be thief as he stuck his hand in the cash register, flung a cup of coffee in his face, sent him scurrying out the door as she bounced the pot off his head...