Word: stewarding
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...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...
...Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...object of their solicitude was Joe Diner, 62, steward of the Denver Press Club - one of the few surviving institutions of its kind in the U.S. and probably the only one with a club building of its own. Word had gone out that Joe had survived a serious operation, was about to undergo another, minor one. The "boys" made up a pot to pay his hospital fees...
Author Thurber sought refuge in France just before the downfall. (He made his first mistake by giving "a book on government by M. Léon Blum [former Socialist Premier now imprisoned at Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees] ... to a French steward on the Ile de France, who turned out to be a Royalist.") He also made the mistake of getting a phrase book to use in France. "Each page has a list of English expressions [with] French translations . . . alongside." Author Thurber learned to say: "I have left my glasses (my watch) (a ring) in the lavatory." In moments...
...West Indies-Central America trade. Not much of a ship, perhaps, but a step in the right direction. Then the company went out of business and Mulzac returned to New York to look for another berth. That was 20 years ago. Since then his chief jobs have been as steward on U.S. passenger ships. Until last week he never again got near an officer's berth-except to make...