Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...
...Moussorgsky wrote other music than Boris Godounov. Yet so little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil...
...sent Richard to military school and then to Trinity College at Hartford, Conn. On vacations he played small roles in stock with his mother. Some film people, on location near the Connecticut town where he was working as a clerk, took him to California when they left. His part in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blos soms made him famous...
...Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this time the Penney dry goods chain had been started. It now includes more than 1,000 links. Several years ago Mr. Penney felt...
Gustav Langdmann for 15 years was an honest, industrious, sober clerk. Last week, his employer fired him, gave him no recommendations...