Word: waitressing
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Chewing his way through some apple pan dowdy in the Union yesterday noon, the Freshman suddenly bit into a small piece of window-glass. He took it to the waitress...
...bores me," pouted a languid lady of Mayfair. "If it were somebody else's wedding, maybe I'd be as excited as the Americans seem to be. But it's the Royal Family and it bores me." A London cook and waitress politely declined a proffered holiday to celebrate the great event. "We'll go if you think we should, Madam," they told their American mistress. There were other Britons as apathetic, and some were downright resentful at the gushers of news concerning the wedding...
Here they were treated like long-lost relatives. Mary, the waitress, treats them like a "godmother," serving them a strict diet of cheeseburgers and "chocolate malted frappes." "Here we can sing until the frappes curdle, and nobody says a word," the choresters exclaim...
Just before we get to Dartmouth, the photog suggests we add more realism, so we go to a hamburger stand, and order three hamburgers, with thick slices of onion. The waitress does not like us. To make it seem that we are New York slickers, we chew gum when we pull into Hanover, and also to seem like polite Joes who don't like to have people breathing our enjoy breath...
Gratitude from a Waitress. Last May, invited to conduct the London Philharmonic for one concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two he will conduct himself; the others will be given in his honor. Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal...