Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
Said the store order clerk: "Sure, dearie, this is Queen Marie...
Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain...
Died. David D. Buick, 74, of Detroit, impoverished information clerk, motorcar pioneer; of cancer; in Detroit...
...president seemed to him a meagre goal for the long years of waiting it required, so to Manhattan's National Bank of Commerce he wrote, and in 1885 he became a Commerce employe. His job was copying letters; his salary $520 per annum. But while many a bank clerk was copying letters perfunctorily, wearily, Copyist Alexander was studying and understanding the letters that flowed from his pen. If Manhattan was Alexander's Rome, then the letters he copied were his Epistles to the Romans...