Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homes in & around Pittsburgh for Easter vacation. One had been given the air trip by his parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...
...radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers had clasped their safety belts...
...natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers...
...vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim...
Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...