New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
ALAN BRIEN
ALAN BRIEN
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Alan Brien6 quotes“New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.”
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As an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege – then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
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A. E. HotchnerA. E. Hotchner I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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