Word: third-class
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Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...
...Stijn and wished to do so on the day of the Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday dress. In these becoming circumstances Her Majesty's Government, with the benevolent concurrence...
...collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class post office, a weekly paper, a municipal debt...
...days before President Roosevelt put all first, second and third-class postmasterships under the Civil Service (TIME, Aug. 3), declared the Journal, Postmaster General Farley called for an examination of new applicants for the West Point job under the old rules, which permitted appointment of anyone of the three top candidates. Hopping mad, the Journal editorialized thus about Miss Harrington...
...before Governor Landon accepted the Republican Presidential nomination last week (see p. 9), the White House issued an executive order designed to deflate Republican attacks on Postmaster General Farley and the New Deal's postmaster patronage. Decreed President Roosevelt: All first, second and third-class postmasters*-13,730 in all-will henceforth be subject to civil service regulations...