Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent years her literary bent has been toward free-lance writing, which she supplements by a typing establishment in the Square. Since 1941 she has done secretarial work for such writers as Edmund Wilson, Esther Forbes, Bernard DeVoto and Donald Ogden Steward, and typed the original of A. J. Cronin's "Shannons...
...Baltimore, the air-conditioned Century Theater invited the public to come in after the last show and spend the night cooling off in upholstered seats. The wine steward of Washington's Mayflower Hotel noted a 300% increase in the sale of mint juleps and Tom Collinses. The Bluefield, W.Va. Chamber of Commerce, which likes to brag about its town's cool summer weather, did its best to compensate for the 92° weather by serving free lemonade...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
...this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than a housewife's complaint, and the housewife will go unheard if a shop steward is discontented...
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, enormously wealthy 10th Duke of Devonshire, faced a period of inactivity as High Steward of Cambridge University, now that the House of Commons had voted to suspend the death penalty. Disclosed the Duke: "My only known duty as High Steward"-which he had never performed in ten years-"had been to attend the hanging of any undergraduate...