Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hebdomadal weather a year in advance. Legend has it that the publisher, pressed by a typesetter for a July 13 forecast, replied hastily: "Anything, anything." The impish employe set up "Rain, Hail and Snow." On July 13, sure enough, it rained, hailed and snowed.* A Providence, R. I. clerk kept count of the Old Farmer's forecast for 1900. It was 33% correct- 2% below the U. S. Weather Bureau's day-ahead record...
...Clerk of court: "Under your argument, Home Guards capturing tanks would be able to keep them...
...hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning of the war. In his apartment they found six suitcases full of stolen or copied Embassy documents, among them a letter from Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt which had been handed to the Embassy that very morning...
With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
...small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could tell a friend that he had been "ten years a policeman and five years a hotel clerk...