Word: servers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student isn't in, the process-server leaves a card saying, "A messenger from the Lamont Library has been to your quarters for the following titles! *** Kindly return them immediately. There will be a messenger foe of 75 cents added to your term bill...
...border between white and Negro districts in midSt. Louis. The place was 50 years old, but it had a lawn and stood on a quiet, elm-shaded street. They made a down payment, signed a mortgage and moved in one day in October 1945. That evening a process server notified them that they had been sued by a white neighbor. The neighbor wanted to throw them...
...most part the game was played and scored like tennis. But there were also openings along the cowshed walls, which the players had to defend like goalies. If the server during play hit the ball into either of two small openings (the grille and winning gallery) it counted a point for him. The receiver had one wide opening (the dedans) to aim for. If either put a ball through the other side openings it counted against him. It was a game that required skill even more than stamina. The first day, Pierre, the old master...
Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...
Miss Eleanor Crosbee, name-checker and soup-server, remarked that the new ruling, though possibly it cut down the number of applications for dates, didn't really affect her much personally. "Why should I care," she cooed, "there are enough passes being made around here and then some. I'm no prig...