Word: clerk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel one morning last week rushed a svelte young woman in a Chinese otter coat, carrying in her arms a small, kicking, whining bundle of black & white fur. Said she to a room clerk: "I am Mrs. William H. Harkness and this is my baby panda...
...nearer $200,000 than the $2,000,000 which was reported. Brisk, fortyish Partner Tullis is Commodore of the Southern Yacht Club, second in age in the U. S. only to the New York Yacht Club. Starting as an office boy, Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig II is 38, tall, slim, and a crack contract player who enters...
...other U. S. citizens doubtless will. Among them is John David Sweeney Jr., blue-eyed, sturdy, unmarried, 23. After graduating last June from Princeton, where he belonged to Colonial Club, he took a month off in Bermuda, then went to work as shipping clerk in his father's business the Royal Eastern Electrical Supply Co. of Brooklyn. He lives with his family in a 15-room house in suburban New Rochelle, N. Y. Like his father, mother and younger brother, he voted for Landon last month. Last week in Baltimore when his card appeared atop the first batch...
...arthritic hobbled into a drugstore and asked the clerk what he had for arthritis," said Professor Mayers, "the clerk could keep him standing there talking continuously for three days, two nights, seven hours and twenty minutes, and he could devote only one minute to each drug, telling the arthritic how and when to use it." According to Northwestern's Mayers, the ludicrous abundance of ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...