Word: stewarding
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...only official record kept of students was the Butler's Book, which was compiled at the end of the first quarter to write student bills. The names were taken from the list of the students who had paid the steward one shilling for a "beer and sizings" account...
Until 1750, the men were placed in temporary seniority by the steward when they came to school in August. The following spring, the faculty placed them in permanent rank; up to 1712, pretty much by scholastic merit. Later the placing was done on the basis of social prominence, but the entire custom was eliminated...
...King George VI led Household Maid Isabel Ross in the first foxtrot of the evening. Then, instead of leaving after his usual one duty dance, His Majesty enjoyed two more rounds while Queen Elizabeth, in gold-tinted crinoline and a diamond tiara, danced with her deputy steward and a page...
...wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
...earned a reputation for smart, hard riding if not for sportsmanship or trustworthiness. By 1945, he had been handed two more lifetime suspensions: one at Jamaica, N.Y. for "reprehensible conduct" (ordering a stablemate jockey to foul another competitor) and one for publicly insulting a Mexico City racing steward...