stewardess
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“But also, the stewardess is flying around so much that they are probably safe too.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sophie Lainault, a 59 year-old former stewardess on Air France, sought to have her cancer recognised as an occupational disease, brought on by conditions at work.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
On an airplane, recently, she noticed that when the stewardess came around offering coffee and tea, a surprising number of adults opted for hot chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a stewardess — as they were then called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
The stewardess reread the slip of paper in her hand, then eyed the big clock mounted by the arrival-and-departure board, as if she had someplace else to be.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
The process of changing young stewardesses into union activists was a lengthy one, full of setbacks and false starts.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
“Catch Me If You Can” leans hard into ’60s chic, with an ensemble of Pan Am airline stewardesses and a variety-show orchestra on stage.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
"But it was feared that if one of the stewardesses didn't stay aboard, he may not let the passengers off in Denver."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2019
Some know her as Rabbi Raquel, the much-suffering moral compass of “Transparent” on Amazon; others as one of the campy stewardesses of the Broadway revival of “Boeing-Boeing.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2016
The stewardesses brought us small trays fitted with square plates filled with sauce over chicken, mushy rice, and boiled string beans.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
