purser
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In 1970, Ms. Laffey Inman, a union leader and Northwest’s first female purser — the lead attendant on a flight — spearheaded a class-action suit, Laffey v.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
I raised it with the purser - the man was moved and spoken to, apparently.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2017
I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014
Her father was Keith Spence, purser of the frigate "Philadelphia," and a prisoner at Tripoli.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
“Those include the fish processing workers, U.S. Coast Guard licensed personnel, refrigeration specialists, marine electricians, fish crews, pursers, cooks and others.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
The Dubai-based company’s pursers are issued with Thinkpad laptops from Lenovo Group Ltd., the second-biggest maker of personal computers, that convert into tablets operated with a stylus.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 16, 2012
The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from the Holy Land.
From Time Magazine Archive
But "Skipper" Williams, never too proud to be a leg man, plods farther along, tracks down friendly captains, pursers, stewards, engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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