Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had been fighting. Farmers tilled fields, animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were...
Director William Seiter extracts some dry comedy from the Milquetoastian terror of the little clerk and from Venus' languid, Olympian indifference to the uproar she creates. Dick Haymes has a turn at the songs and Eve Arden is good as a secretary who understands her wolf of a boss all too well...
Suddenly knees, feet and elbows came through the door, scattering glass before them. The invaders slowly climbed, one by one, through the empty frames in the door. I watched their leader-a blond youth of 20-walk quickly up to a grey-haired clerk leaning innocently against a desk, spin him around, swing a haymaker at the man's temple and send him sprawling across the marble floor against the wall. The man got up holding his aching head, shaking it slowly as if in disbelief. Fighting and fear spread swiftly...
...settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with a Montreal dairy and then as a clerk in a Sherbrooke Street store...
...help her discharge her responsibilities, the Dutch people have elected a sober, able lot of politicians. The two largest parties, the Laborites and the Catholics, work well together. The Netherlands' Premier, Willem Drees, is a quiet, respected Socialist who started out as a bank clerk and parliamentary stenographer. Last week he peered through his pince-nez from behind his neat desk and spoke to a U.S. newsman. "Western Union? A fine and necessary thing, but it will take a lot of time ... Holland is grateful indeed...