Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...
...Ossining, N. Y., Village President Howard Dunscomb, a rock-ribbed Republican for 35 years, announced that he had seceded from the Republican Party. Reason: For three years he asked the Republican county clerk for low-numbered license plates, never once got them...
Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, author of "Mr. Justice Brandeis," a study published in 1932, will preside at the ceromonies, and Dean James M. Landis, who was law clerk to Justice Brandeis in 1925, will make the address of acceptance on behalf of the School...
Professor Felix Frankfurter of the law school, author of "Mr. Justice Brandeis," a study published in 1932, will preside at the ceremonies, and Dean James M. Landis, who was law clerk to Justice Brandeis in 1925, will make the address of acceptance on behalf of the school...