Maybe his occupations had had something to do with it; he'd spent about four hours supervising Operation Dismemberment, and then listening to the reports on the dismantled Cadillacs.
"Out Like a Light"
Gordon Randall Garrett
Where women are so situated that they do not actually perform them, they need, for properly supervising others and for making intelligible and appreciative use of the labors of others, a considerable understanding of these various matters.
"What the Schools Teach and Might Teach"
John Franklin Bobbitt
She is a supervising, regulating kind of a woman, and very strict about-well, other people's-expenditures; but she was glad that the "hard thoughts" were lifted off from her.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney