Word: stewards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Call me Mr. Roberts,"* said Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Owen Josephus Roberts, a democratic Republican, to his steward as he sailed for Europe on the S. S. Statendam...
...banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held up his sleeve for 13 poverty-stricken years as dishwasher, wine steward and hack writer. While the rest of the Waterman family sat around in speechless amazement, he not only returned but took undisputed control of the $4,500,000 (estimated) Waterman business...
With nothing else to do, they began to fight. The purser said the captain was trying to wreck the boat. A steward fought the cook because "we had canned pears too often." The captain said the chief engineer had stolen 20 barrels of white lead. The captain's wife refused to come to dinner. The captain chased a passenger from the pantry because she was helping the assistant cook dry the dishes. A passenger announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team...
...Five experts-two pilots, a flight engineer, a steward, a stewardess-will control the DC-4, and they will have at their disposal every conceivable check on their own fallibilities. There will be, for instance, eleven independent radio transmitters and receivers, among them a teletypewriter to take weather reports. Auxiliary motor generators will make DC-4 sending sets just as powerful as control sets now in use at landing fields...
Beginning at 11 o'clock, the regatta has singles, doubles, and quad races until two o'clock. The interclub eights, the Steward Cup and the Freshman eights races follow, and precede the Varsity and Jayvee meets...