Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...
...Brooklyn dress cutter named Kominsky, 28-year-old Danny Kaye didn't get into show business until he'd been bounced as a soda-jerker for giving his friends free drinks, bounced as an insur ance clerk for making a $40,000 mistake on the books. Then he got a start on the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious...
...coordinate his department with others in case of air raids. "Pretty soon we may call out some of you fellows as volunteers," he said somewhat doubtfully. "We'll need about four hundred ready to work on the College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything's a big joke. Why, we had to send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street and Broadway...
Dodo was a railroad-station information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...
...five years. Stockholders for five years through the stated October meeting of 1946: Dean Wallace B. Donham and Dean Francis T. Spaulding; stockholder for two years to fill vacancy by resignation: Andrew J. Casner; officers for one years: president, Henry S. Thompson; vice-president, Austin W. Scott; clerk (secretary), Walter Humphreys; treasurer, Horace S. Ford...