Word: waitressing
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...platinum mink stole and picture hat. She was also cursing the photographers. "Make them stop doing that; I'll throw something at them in a minute," she told Kefauver angrily. Then, while the Senators listened breathlessly, Virginia told her simple tale of how a 17-year-old waitress from Alabama met a friend of big-time bookies named Joe Epstein, and started along the road to fame and riches...
...real-life TV show was better than the movies. When lush Virginia Hill ("I didn't keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur-bearing ex-waitress. Similarly, an urbane, aging Republican politician named Charles Lipsky revealed himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated...
...story) and came up with what eventually turned out to be the first solid facts on Brown's doings. He had questioned a Business School graduate, not as a suspect, but simply as a name in the little black book, and he had also tried to locate a former waitress who had roomed with the Dahlia when she worker in the Square. The Record finally tracked down Brown who promptly reversed himself and confirmed the Los Angeles reports. He left for Jersey City without explaining the reasons for his first story, although there is some evidence that he was trying...
Compromise. In Detroit, when a thug named Blackie held up Waitress Marie Dykes, she talked him into taking a $10 loan, signing an I.O.U...
...Charley Summers returns to England with an ill-fitted metal leg and a battered mind. He visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...