Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she graduated from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...
Then somebody with a dead white face and a bleeding forehead came up beside me. I helped him on to the raft and he was horribly sick. His trousers had been sucked off. He said he was a cabin steward...
...bottom had been stove in. They then picked up one poor woman who was clinging to a piece of wood, and an unconscious man who was starfished on a hatch board. He was covered with engine oil and had a great bloody eye. It was my friend and cabin steward, Dickson...
...next to a kind steward, who rubbed my back and was wonderfully sympathetic. I was feeling by this time that I really didn't mind terribly if I was drowned, if only the damned boat would stop bucking about for half a minute. Then I think I must have slept (I remember using two Lascars for a pillow, and thinking them an extremely good one), for when I looked up again there was the light, but this time it was bigger and closer. And then I saw that there were two lights. By God, that was a good sight...
...moan from anyone now. In a minute we were all cracking jokes and shaking hands. The steward and I thumped each other on the backs, and when the next flare went up I saw that his face was wreathed in smiles...