Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After planning Harvard Club banquets for over a quarter of a century, Steward Thomas P. Jones will be unable to supervise the Alumni dinner taking place in Boston today at 6:30 o'clock. He will spend the last night of his career as steward, in the hospital, nursing a broken ankle, acquired Thursday...
...eyed man in riding boots and breeches and a dark whipcord tunic looked down on the sparkling sea from a huge plane. He had finished reading his dispatches. The steward came along the cabin balancing a tray. "Tea, sir?" The man declined it. Then with a pleasant sigh the man leaned back in his seat, opened a book of Browning's poems, and lost himself...
...years ago America elected its first President. But many years before that, in 1638, Harvard College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...
King Cole makes his way by hitchhiking and has never had to pay a hotel bill, although he stops at the best, including the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. To cross the ocean, he has worked as a mess boy, steward, and cook. For his incidental expenses, the newsboy earns money peddling papers and writing feature articles about himself...
...Germany. So three weeks ago Prince Friedrich was moved to an ordinary internment camp. Last week London learned that the King had been graciously pleased to discharge the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury from his sinecure on May 10 last and appoint the Duke of Hamilton & Brandon to be Lord Steward...