Word: waitressing
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...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...
...place and also waited. But while the undergraduates were patient, he was clearly uneasy. He looked at his watch and groomed his pencil for singing the yellow slip in record time. But no yellow slip appeared. His face contorted with agony as the minutes passed. Finally, seeing an idle waitress across the room, he snatched up his napkin and rushed to her table. Over his shoulder he explained to his startled companious, "I'm going to see 'Top Hat' tonight; prices change at six-thirty...
...alone hath looked on beauty bare." Corinthian columns actually supporting a fine entablature... Modesty, any time, any place, viewed from any angle... Feathery, faery dust... The cool kindliness of sheets; the rough make kiss of blankets... The feeling of work well done... An old Greek Vase... A young inexperienced waitress saying, "Yes, Sir"... The Yard just after dawn... Unpassioned beauty of a great machine... The good smell of old clothes and old books... A formal lecture well planned and well delivered...
...last week. On removing from his face a mixture of soot and cold cream, police discovered that they had a Japanese college student. Taro Yamada. No prankster, Mr. Yamada had turned himself from yellow to black because he believed that today an Ethiopian would prove irresistible to the Japanese waitress of his desires...
...three days ago this whole question was resurrected from the grave of innocuous desuetude by a waitress, new to the particular dinning hall, who rashly said a pleasant "Yes, Sir" to the orders of the students, and "You're welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...