Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Housman laid the foundation of his classical learning at St. John's College, Oxford, then went to London as a Higher Division Clerk in the British Patent Office. After ten years in the Civil Service he became Professor of Latin at London's University College. His first book (A Shropshire Lad, 1896) brought him a reputation, but not the one he was after. While his younger brother Laurence was turning out a stream of second-rate novels and stories, A. E. Housman was making his name feared and respected among scholars as editor of Latin poets. His magnum...
...stirred up. So would his neighbors be if they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money with his third book to get a house and garden. With the comfortable profits from Little...
...morning long the brother of Lee Weinstein, Moench's successor as old Ridley's clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone...
Callers on Pilot Francis Monroe Hawks in the Manhattan offices of Texas Co. last week were announced in a curious manner. The reception clerk would turn to a telegraph key, buzz the name and business of the caller in wireless code. From his inner office Commander Hawks would buzz a reply. Reason: preparatory to a 25,000-mi. flight over the Pan American Airways network he is brushing up on his radio...
...Judge commands a recess for three days to allow all to recover their voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...