Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Johnny Hayes, after the day he won his country the race, returned to Manhattan and the sports department of a cheap store where he had previously been a clerk. After 1910, he ran in no more races; in 1912, he coached the U. S. Olympic marathoners...
...drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil. He became instead a soldier, a clerk, a barrister, and to all outward appearances...
...hamlets of Athens, Tenn., and Gilmer, West Va., got into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs...
...Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...