Word: waitressing
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...Chicago, Helen Fortney, 20, trim, muscular, 138-lb. girl from Lake Geneva, Wis., advertised for a job as bodyguard, claiming that she is a better pistol and rifle shot, wrestler and boxer than most men. She got several score offers of marriage, two for waitress jobs, two interviews with detective agencies and one offer of a bodyguard job which she called ''a little suspicious...
...fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began to make steady money. He married a pretty Polish waitress and felt everything was fine...
...real trouble centers around something in a dining hall. She comes from the south. She used to be a waitress in Dunster House, but for some inexplicable reason the authorities say fit to move her. Now she is a waitress in Adams. She is a very intelligent girl, because she has learned the wisdom in the old saying, "When in Rome, do the Romans...
...scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since Katy, the Waitress, Became an Aviatress...
...town where she got work as a waitress she soon attracted the attention of Andi, a successful, aristocratic young judge. Andi was engaged to an heiress, but his heart was not in it. After protracted and pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie...