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

The brothers made their professional debut as children, when their father put them on a boat to Detroit to visit an uncle and told the purser the boys would put on a free show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Megan Allison, the ship’s purser, is filling in as cook the first night.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2016

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

Besides the ten passengers we had the purser, the ship's agent, and another man at the table, and the table was never intended to seat more than eight.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.