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...police records as heart failure. But two flaws turn up. One is a buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West figure of Justice, who suspects that her friend the reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love to her, meets with complete and, to him, nauseating success. "She loves me, she loves me not," he muses with characteristic humor, carefully pulling off the wings and legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ascetic Killer | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...tolling of a thousand bells, a broken window and a flooded bathroom, a Goodman rhapsody and a Schubert symphony. Things they wrote home about--marks, athletics, money, and evasions. And things they didn't---applause that pleaded for more at the Old Howard, the overdue library book, the one waitress who brought boiled eggs that tasted homey, the girl picked up unexpectedly at the House dance, the unfortunate encounter with the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

...neighborly feeling has also spread to the employees, it appears. A correspondent writes us that he was dining in one of the Houses recently when he spied a sinister form moving about in his salad. Closer inspection revealed it to be a worm. Somewhat disturbed, he called the head waitress--one of the more "nationalistic" of the head waitresses--to look at the little stranger. The good lady studied the creature carefully before making any comment: "An Inter-House guest, I suppose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...part in the automobile crash on March 11 which caused the death of a waitress and out Frederick P. Jerome '68 in the hospital for three weeks, Morris G. Manker '38 will serve 14 days in Cambridge jail after he receives his degree on June 28, it was learned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANKER TO SERVE 14 DAYS IN JAIL AFTER HIS GRADUATION | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...only trouble with it all, lamented the healthy-looking one, is that I don't feel so good. Same here, moaned the one who was looking better, in fact I feel like hell. So together they hailed a passing waitress for a tobacco slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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