The rejection of a fat but fit and qualified woman for a job as a Jazzercise instructor in San Francisco was defensible, he claims, on the grounds that the company advertises itself as a weight-loss organization: "Asking Jazzercise to hire fat instructors is not like asking a lunch counter to hire blacks; it's more like asking a cosmetics company to hire models with severe acne".
If you can't do this for some reason, at your local drugstore or beauty counter ask a member of staff if they could show you the best mascara for this effect.
"Pardon me," I asked a man behind the counter, "is it possible that anyone here might remember a man named Roger Corbett?" "It's not a name I know.
By Ralph Barton and John McCarten The New Yorker, September 24 , 1955P. 38 In a five-and-ten-cent store on East Fifty-ninth St. a young matron asked a salesgirl at the toy counter if she had a small metal car made to scale, explaining that she meant an exact duplicate, in miniature, of a regular car.
"Do you sell anything that will make me feel good?" I asked a stylish man behind the counter, who worked up a cup of something based on how I told him I felt—"jittery".
When the renegade Sandinista Eden Pastora, known as Commander Zero, fell out with his comrades, he went to Libya to ask Qaddafi to back a counter-revolution.
In a 45-page motion filed this week, the counter-demonstrators asked a California judge to drop assault and riot charges stemming from violent clashes outside the state capitol.
At one counter, a woman asked a salesman for an iPhone.
If you can't see your dog being loaded onto the plane, ask the counter agent to call the ramp to make sure he is safely on board.
Asked if she sold things behind a counter, he asks back, "Are you kidding?
