Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, John Rogon's last hope revived when he heard that his father's body still lay at Chicago's Illinois Demonstrators Co., which disposes of unidentified dead. He hurried there. The clerk was polite but firm-the mistake was unfortunate. The body of Joseph Rogon had already been sold to the Northwestern University medical school. There it had been dissected and the parts cremated...
...Klan would die hard. After posing for court photographers in a hooded sheet, former County Kleagle Ray A. Schneider folded the costume lovingly and returned it to the court clerk. "Handle it carefully," he warned. "It's sacred...
Like many another guest at the Red Army Day party in Moscow, U.S. Embassy Clerk Waldo Ruess (rhymes with U.S.) of Hollywood was feeling no pain. Some time during the evening his eye lit on a lovely actress from the State Theater and he asked to drive her home. The girl accepted, but before they had gone far she had a change of heart and jumped out of his car, yelling for help. As a cop or two ran up, Clerk Ruess sighed at the wonder of woman and drove...
Technically embassy clerks are not diplomatically immune. But Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, aware that Washington grants a courtesy immunity to all embassy personnel, refused to surrender Ruess. The Russians insisted. Ambassador Smith demanded an exit visa for his clerk. The Russians refused. Last week, with Clerk Ruess confined to Embassy grounds, the khuligan crisis was at a standoff. Meanwhile, spy-suspect Redin, under $10,000 bail bond, was awaiting trial (on June...
Trigger Man. Meursault, the central character in the story, is a clerk. He lives in Algiers (where Camus himself was born). One day, on a beach just outside the city, he murders a man, for no particular reason. He is arrested and sentenced to die on the guillotine...