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When asked about this sudden change, a Leverett House waitress admitted that an order had come from higher up. "We were told to ask each student what vegetables he wants and also to save on butter and bread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waitresses Claim Food Waste Less | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

...second game, Miss Butterfield "kept the old soldier walking," pegged out with more than enough. Then, smiling for the first time in three days, Waitress Butterfield received in her trembling hands 100 crinkly $1 bills and a gold cup - on which was engraved U. S. National Cribbage Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardy Survivor | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...grand ballroom of St. Paul's Hotel St. Paul one night last week, a pert little waitress named Katherine Butterfield sat opposite an auditor named Herbert Meddinnus. Miss Butterfield was the pone. In the second hand, she held 16. She was 20 holes ahead at the first half. In the seventh hand, she held 16 again. On the last round she was 20 holes ahead. She went out needing 10 and holding 12. Mr. Meddinnus barely got around the horn to escape a skunking by two holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardy Survivor | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Profits from the Student Union Dramatic Club production of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Fall of the City" will also be added to the fund. Contacts will be made today with the Sailors. Garment-Workers, Waitress, and Taxi-Drivers unions in an effort to sell blocks of tickets to the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. PLANS DRIVE FOR LARGE ANTI-WAR CHEST | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...bone-dry, but licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Sooner Strong Boy | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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