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...years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned out to be steward to a count who wanted to be known as a composer but Mozart, worn out at 35, took him to be Death. He died before he could finish the Requiem, had a five-dollar funeral, an unmarked grave...
Leverett was the grandson of John Leverett. Governor of Massachusettsw graduation from Harvard in 1680 became a tutor in the impoverished University, whose sole officers were a president, four tutors, one for each class, and a steward. The tutors, who taught all subjects, from Latin to astronomy, were usually recent graduates...
Next morning Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went to the police. Their assailant, said they, was slim, young, pale. His demeanor, even during the process of attempted assault was not discourteous. Perhaps he was a waiter or a steward. Accompanied by the police Mrs. Pagenstecher & maid went aboard the Monarch of Bermuda. Hiding in his berth they found one Peter Paul Jencius, 18. On his head was the hatchet mark that Mrs. Pagenstecher's maid had blazed...
...during the evening. This year an effort is being made to encourage residents to hold dinners in their rooms before the dance. Permission to do this may be obtained from the Head Tutor, and the accommodations for food can be secured at moderate rate by consulting the steward of the dining halls. Last year the custom was tried by several residents, and proved successful; residents who are entertaining guests from out of town are in this way enabled to make a few acquaintances before reaching the ball. Arrangements as to the receiving line, ushers, refreshments, and music are still...
Copilot, radioman, steward and passengers plastered their noses against windows while Pilot Ormsbee banked lower & lower around an animated speck on the surface -a lifeboat. Someone in it was waving an oar with a shirt tied to the blade. . . . There seemed to be ten persons in the boat. . . . One of them looked something like a woman. . . . And over there, taking a terrific beating from the waves, was another man hanging to a broken hatch door...