Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk sang out the roll call of states, four husky men in shirt sleeves began lugging armloads of placards down the Stadium aisles and stacking them neatly at the end of each row of delegates. The whole thing ticked as smoothly as Swiss watchworks. On the second roll call Nebraska's squarish Governor Dwight Griswold, his hair plastered down tight, approached the speakers' microphone and the posters began bobbing briskly down each row of seats. By now the Stadium's high, bunting-hung galleries were crowded with spectators waiting to see the nomination. Governor Griswold wound...
When the story got around, the girls passing Anne and Marco hummed I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby. Scraps of conversation from adjoining tables reached them: "I haven't laughed so much since that Russian prince turned out to be a soda clerk. . . ." Anne broke down, sent Marco away, married Paul...
Payoff. At Long Island's Belmont Park. Harold Holberg tried his best to bet $100 on the No. 3 horse in the eighth race, angrily protested when he received tickets on No. 4 from the pari-mutuel clerk, who refused to change them; when No. 3 finished first, Holberg took the case to court, finally...
...Smyrna, Leyden learned (in the first of several flash backs), Dimitrios had merely committed a murder. Then he framed a Moslem friend (Monte Blue) into dying for the crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
...into a swank cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...