Word: waitressing
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...altogether perfect, George Brush had once, beset by a girl in a barn, sinned. Thereafter he regarded himself as married, sought her everywhere. When he found her again she was a waitress in Kansas City and not glad to see him, but he wore down her resistance, married her. His great ambition was to have a fine American home. But experience, domestic and otherwise, gradually undermined George Brush's faith that he could get better and better until he was perfect. He lost his faith, his health, nearly died. But he was a strong young man. He recovered...
...ordinary conversation to an acquaintance whom they see in the dining-hall, and even a wary glance of recognition is frowned upon. They must stand at strict attention whenever not actually engaged in serving or carrying off dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting...
Tarabas was a creature of impulse. It was impulse rather than conviction that got him mixed up with a student revolutionary society in St. Petersburg. When his father with difficulty got him acquitted, Tarabas was shipped off to the U.S. In Manhattan he made violent love to a Russian waitress, made more violent scenes when she cast her eyes elsewhere. He might have landed in a serious scrape when he throttled her employer, but war broke out just then, and Tarabas went back to Russia to fight the Germans...
Events which threaten to put the Freshman field hockey team into permanent obscurity are the coming bowling matches in which the teams from the house bus-boys' bowling league will take up the challenge of the five best waitress-bowlers of the house dining halls to play any or all of them...
...Eliot House aggregation, on the bottom of the league, will probably be the first team to play the female bowlers, and feels confident of its ability to beat the more inexperienced waitress team. The other teams, from Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell House, will play the all-star ladies later...