Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortunately a little late in ending. At five minutes after 3, while the editors were still talking, a plastic bomb exploded on the stairway, destroying three rooms and starting a fire. Instead of killing any descending editors, the explosion succeeded only in wounding a 50-year-old woman clerk...
...held by Mrs. Mary Zimbalist, 85, widow of the late, longtime Journal editor, Edward Bok, and now married to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Another block of some 17% is held by the estate of Mrs. Zimbalist's father, the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the former Maine dry-goods clerk who founded the Curtis publishing empire in 1883. (Mrs. Zimbalist is one of seven trustees of the estate.) Even without the stock in the estate, Mrs. Zimbalist's own holding-1,160,505 shares of common stock, 131,000 of preferred-represents working control of the company...
...works for a sutler selling provisions to Union troops, and eventually fetches up on the fringes of the Battle of the Wilderness (1863). There is a violent episode, the sort Warren has written twenty times, in which two men are shown to have the mark of Cain: a Negro clerk has the brand of a deserter on his buttocks, and Adam's employer wears a highly symbolic money belt. And at the end there is an intertwinedness-of-guilt scene; ragged Confederates have stolen Adam's boots, and he, soliloquizing on the oneness of man, takes a pair...
Goddammit, Write. Columbus, Ohio, was where the bed fell on father, and the ghost got in, where the dog that bit people did his dirty work. It was very nearly where Thurber stayed. He skipped graduation at Ohio State University to serve as a code clerk in Paris during World War I, but returned to cover city hall for the Columbus Dispatch. It was 1925 before Thurber's first wife, Althea, a beautiful girl who had twice been elected Campus Rosebud at State, persuaded him to go to Paris and write a novel, like everyone else...
Frederick V. Mulhauser '64 of Quincy House and Claremont, Calif. was elected clerk of the corporation, and John R. Clark '64 of Kirkland House and Philadelphia was named business manager...