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...Duke of Wellington, 31, sixth of his line, who was also a Netherlands prince, a Spanish grandee, a Portuguese count. He was killed in Italy last year. To a mess steward who doubted his identity, the Duke once explained: "It's the same name so many pubs have...
...decade you have undertaken vast new obligations, which we sup port. But because you have not applied to these obligations the ordinary standards of business judgment, you have lost our money by the billions and we, the people, say: give us a businesslike administration that will act as the steward of our prosperity; that will ensure the social progress that is now threatened; and that will manage our affairs at least as intelligently as we manage our own enterprises...
Somoza makes it his business to turn his effervescent charm full-faucet on U.S. diplomats and officials. James Bolton Stewart, now U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, speaks up stoutly for Somoza's "stable" administration. Tacho, who likes a pun, has amiably referred to the Ambassador as "my steward...
...Second Pit. Joseph in Egypt ended when Joseph, Potiphar's powerful steward, was ruined by the false accusation of Potiphar's wife. Potiphar sent him to the island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage of his life and the mystery of Egypt, while a boat hustles him off to jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment...
When orders came to abandon ship, few were prompt to obey. "Yes, sir," mumbled the Negro mess attendants manning an antiaircraft gun; they kept on firing. A19-year-old steward's mate with a broken leg dragged himself back to his post with them. Only when two planes had been shot down and the decks were awash did the men jump into the oily...