Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
...shepherd and daughter of an army officer, Toni was born in Suffolk, educated in Anglican schools in England except for a three-year sojourn in Malaya (1955-58), when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...
Every business day but one, Ben A. gets into his car in a Seattle suburb and drives clear across the city to the sporting-goods store where he is a clerk. He puts in a normal workday, then drives home to his wife and two small children. What sets Ben A., 24, apart from millions of other Americans who drive daily to and from such jobs is that he spends Wednesdays-a full 24 hours-in University Hospital, hooked up to an artificial kidney. Without that Wednesday stint on the machine, he would be dead, probably before the month...
...Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...
...newsreel of Reichs-kanzler Hitler at his first Cabinet meeting, bowing obsequiously to Von Papen, making cheesy smiles and cute little wriggles of politeness, playing Alphonse to Göring's Gaston over who sits in what chair and, in general, looking like a whey-faced, flabby postal clerk ill at ease in the company of his betters...