Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next man on the Treasury list is Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...Krum Elbow. Everyone laughed at his question which was thoroughly facetious. Mrs. Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds in the campaign and I'm proud of my figure. Look here. There's nothing extra in there," he had said to the clerk in the town hall while waiting for four other voters to pull the levers on the machine before he did. "You must have been sitting up pretty late [to hear his speeches] while I was in California. The time is so much different there...
From this it must not be supposed that Hot Saturday is an unusually daring or profligate production. On the contrary it is a stale and feeble homily, tepidly concerned with what passes for young love in a minor U. S. city. Nancy Carroll is a bank clerk and the town's prettiest girl. She is so popular that the gossips wag their tongues. When a young rake entertains her at his parties, it is taken for granted that he and she are misbehaving. More becomingly dressed than in Scarlet Dawn, Miss Carroll plays her stupid role ingratiatingly; Cary Grant...
...Hoover v. Roosevelt," intoned the clerk of a Chicago police court, whereupon Ike Hoover,* special agent for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., stepped forward, accused one Metts Roosevelt, Negro, of stealing ice in the yards. Said Metts Roosevelt, after receiving a fine of $10 & costs, "I'm going to vote for Hoover- and I don't mean Ike Hoover, neither...
...production: Gaev, age 45; Trofimov, a perpetual student; Lophin, age 38; Epihodov, an old man; Semyonov, a landowner, the comedy part; Firs, the old valet, age 87; and Yaska, a young valet. Minor roles to be filled are those of a vagrant, a station master, and a post office clerk...