Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moved to investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself as a clerk in his shoe department. He finds out a lot he never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...
...father, so the story goes, went to a store that dealt in infants' haberdashery to buy the necessary articles. After doing up the bundle the young lady clerk said, "The dozen dydees are a dollar, and three cents...
When two other sons, Quentin, a clerk in the Air Ministry, and Frank, a technician for the British Broadcasting Corp., were arrested and interned, their father shook his head helplessly. When the first big flight of Nazi bombers roared over London one night last September, a bomb crashed on Dulwich Common, blasted the home in which white-haired Michael Joyce lived with his wife and two youngest children. Ailing, he moved into another small, red-painted brick house in nearby East Dulwich. There, last fortnight, Michael Joyce died...
...some years Lumberman MacMillan has been the world's No. 1 exporter of lumber. But, at 55, success has not smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
...board's main problems are not financial but psychiatric: the district is crammed with writers, musicians, radio performers, interior decorators. Many of them do not want to serve, manufacture fantastic excuses. Many more are willing but not wanted by the Army. Said the board's chief clerk: "You'd be surprised about those interior decorators...