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Word: zavyalov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under-the-teacup tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Old Tribute | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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