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Updated: May 2, 2025

Most of the people in the great dining hall looked at dad as though he was a Crases, or a Rockefeller, and the head waiter bowed low to dad, and dad thought it was Astor, and dad looked dignified and hurt at being spoken to by a common tavern keeper.

George W. (George Wilbur) Peck - Peck's Bad Boy Abroad: Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad: in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904