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...Krol under the bar and go into Heidon," grunted his sober friend, Wun Lung Gong. "The game isn't till tomorrow and I'll have to Carey you to it, anyhow. That's the waitress...
Instead of bucking the chef, waitress, and pastry-cook unions at every turn, Harvard has co-operated with their representatives, winning Joe Stefani's applause as a "good" employer. The result is that the University labor picture is a peaceful one, while union members have gained more humane conditions...
...Camp Blanding (for 75,000 soldiers) on a flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold for $15 an acre began selling for $15 a front foot...
Last week, Baby Jean's immortality had become just another intimation. The Messenger had other things on his metaphysical mind. The R. F. of M. M. dumped Baby Jean back into her waitress mother's un-Vanderbiltian quarters in a Manhattan rooming house. The Messenger, nattily attired in a grey, pin-striped suit with a platinum-and-diamond dove in the lapel, received reporters in his Manhattan office, lamented that he was the victim of a whispering campaign, and recited from Kipling's If!: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...
...heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...