Word: waitressing
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...five girls aboard four navy vessels (TIME, April 23), one of these baggages appeared in Manhattan, eager to talk to newsgatherers. Her name, she asserted on various occasions, was Rumilda, Murilda or Ramilda Avery. When taken off the destroyer Sands a month ago, she had claimed to be a waitress...
...Secret Hour. There is no denying the cinemart of Pola Negri, but it is a shame to see her put into cotton stockings and handing out coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack...
...would be attractive to have the groom sing a solo at his wedding . . . and do I stay with the groom after the wedding most of the time?" Another: "How do you teach children not to swallow fish bones?" Another: "How can I develop sufficient ingenuity to be a cook-waitress and at the same time a cool, tranquil and charming hostess? . . . when I get up from the table to change plates or bring in a dish from the kitchen every man at the table jumps to his feet and follows me about in a natural impulse to help me. Nothing...
...dining. Your ideal subscriber is the snappy chap who rushes into a feeding place, glares because no stool is vacant, spots the man who is up to pie, takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...
Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...