Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential speeches change with about the same speed as fashions in men's clothes. But they do change. State of the Union messages were delivered in person by Washington and John Adams; Jefferson established a new tradition of sending them to Congress to be read by a clerk. Woodrow Wilson, a forceful speaker, revived the personal appearance. This week Harry Truman went back to the conventional Jefferson style. But he set a precedent of his own by sending Congress the longest such document on record-25,000 words...
...dreary hours of sea and nothingness the village on the County Clare coast looked like a picture post card. The heart of young (22), romantic Dick Bergman, flying home to Holland from America, was filled with a deep yearning for Kilkee. Bergman soulfully wrote to Kilkee's town clerk to find him a Kilkee wife...
...Angeles housewife sought an eastbound airplane flight reservation and, when asked for her priority, carefully removed an airplane stamp from her ration book and handed it to the clerk...
...clerk tried to smile. Pushing the bulge to a sharper point, the sailor again ordered: "C'mere." The clerk bolted out the front door...
...clerk who had fled reappeared and went pensively back into the shop...