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...survey of undergraduate greed yesterday played havoe with service in House Dining Halls, as waitresses were ordered to secure a signature for every second helping and every dish not included on the menu. The white, "No Charge" slips had then to be approved by the head waitress before the order could be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Dining Halls Emerge From Flurry of White Slips | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Cremonese said he could show pieces of the eye he had chipped off. But Farmer Gonon would not let him try to fit the missing pieces to his Venus. Cremonese said he would produce the model, then had trouble remembering her name; it was Anna Something. Anna Strudinka, Polish waitress in a night club, turned up, announced she had been the model, permitted her neck to be measured (it coincided with the neck of the figure) but refused to let the investigation go any further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fakes | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...intemperance and cruelty. Palmer's first two wives supposedly received divorce settlements totalling about $5,000,000, but the third Mrs. Palmer received only $250 a month alimony and counsels' fees ($10,000). Few days after his divorce, Potter Palmer married Pluma Louise Lowery Abatiello, 23, roadhouse waitress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Pepper was saying something about being "an employer too." Well, this was interesting. It gave Vag an opening because he wondered.... The waitress was wanting to know if he was through with the lamb. Desert already! And the Red Pepper had switched the, subject. Suddenly, halfway through his ice cream, Vag realized what was happening. He was being taken right out of the play like a Harvard end! Decoyed to the right, cross-blocked when he turned back toward the left, mousetrapped by the Master, he was missing the ball carried consistently and the game was nearly over. These union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time May has six children, she can still say: "Ain't life funny and grand?" Her oldest son turns gangster, is killed. Three daughters become schoolteacher, waitress, fashion model. When two other children become famous Hollywood stars, May goes to live in a Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strong Woman | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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