Word: stewarding
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...witnesses tell it, Zantzinger downed two fast drinks at the bar, then whacked the restaurant's hostess and its elderly sommelier with a wooden carnival cane that he had picked up somewhere. Coaxed into checking the cane, he lunged at the wine steward's cordial tray, then his neck chain, caught a sharp elbow in the stomach in return. Zantzinger had two double bourbons with his steak; Jane Zantzinger, four double Cutty Sarks with her prime ribs. When the head barman refused to serve more, Jane hopped to another table, sipped from the glasses of its surprised occupants...
...October he fired a troublemaking Communist shop steward. When the other shop stewards called a wildcat strike, Barke refused to yield, and within ten days the strike collapsed. Then Barke refused to rehire 600 of the striking workers-including twelve shop stewards-all of whom he classified as troublemakers...
...Filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board that the West Coast affiliate of the Seafarers' International Union ships "lily-white crews and is reluctant to assign Negroes jobs above steward level...
Dutifully plodding through standard Navy procedures in a detective-storylike narrative, he slowly comes face to face with a mother's grief, a Negro steward's blackmail of the dead officer, and the Navy's distaste for the bad publicity that his investigation seems likely to bring, pressure develops to cut the investigation short and just report "suicide, causes unknown," Marks fights back out of the simplest of motives-he is angry at being pushed around. But when both Navy and lawyers back down, the lieutenant triumphantly becomes commander of the situation, only to learn the moral...
Died. Francis Hackett, 79, pince-nezed Irish steward of letters who, like other Dublin literary dissidents, exiled himself to the U.S. in 1901 where he was lauded for his lively book criticism in the Chicago Evening Post, the New Republic and the New York Times, and for his even livelier biographical study of the private lives of Henry VIII; of a heart attack; near Copenhagen, Denmark...