Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years at Boston's corruption-laced City Hall, City Clerk John B. Hynes had learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and Democratic), and he harbored little love for the shopworn, sticky-fingered machine of Mayor James Michael Curley...
George H. O'Brien, owner of the Provision, reported that a five foot eight inch man, about 35 years of age, entered his store shortly before 7 p.m. and ordered a bottle of rum and some Coca-Cola. James F. Mahoney, a clerk, went to a rear room for the Coca-Cola and upon emerging was stopped at the door by the customer, who partially displayed a silver steel revolver...
Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call...
...just about to reduce, relentlessly uplift-minded and bewilderedly civic-conscious. Overwhelmed by the mysteries of the inheritance tax, the Hokinson matron asked: "How much would my tax be if I left it all to the government?" With a memorable culture-or-bust look, she inquired of a bookstore clerk: "Isn't it about time another one of John Gunther's 'Insides' came out?" And she begged her hairdresser: "Now please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman...
...Still far out in front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample...