Word: waitressing
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After work, Komar eats in a drab restaurant, chats with the waitress, and goes home to the rooming house in which he has lived for ten years. Sometimes his landlady invites him down for an evening of bridge, and tuna-fish sandwiches. "He was aware of the larger possibilities of life, the beautiful, excruciating entanglements that other people got into, and survived, but these required an enormous effort, and in his observation were rarely worth it; he liked better the passing warmth that asked nothing of him beyond the moment's courtesy or interest...
...never hold him long. To yield to all, said Gertrude Stein of him, is "not to yield at all." The day always comes when he packs up a couple of suits, throws in his stacks of unanswered mail, and heads for the station. A few days later, a waitress in Tucson is apt to find herself in deep conversation with a kindly, grey-haired gentleman from the East; or a bellhop in Paris will note the loquacious American who talks with such intensity in the hotel lobby; or a group of students in Germany will hear a lecture delivered with...
...fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...
...reporter for the Chicago Daily News, auburn-haired Edan Wright, 34, has played as many roles as a stock-company actress. She has been everything from a prisoner in a women's jail to a patient in a mental hospital and a waitress in a strip joint. Last week Reporter Wright made the front page again, this time as a detective. Across Page One the News splashed an eight-column banner: 22-YEAR SEARCH FOR KIDNAPED BABY
...days later, Rajah, a Burmese judge and a Malayan university lecturer went to a restaurant for an after-theater snack. Said a waitress: "We don't serve black people in here." Said the manager: "It's the law." But when the three visitors tried to find out about the law, they got nowhere, because there is no such...