Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defending himself against impending suspension, prearranged at last week's meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...
...Presbyterian Church of the U. S. suspends its members when they disappear, when no trace of them is found for many years. Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly, announced last week that the church had put the names of 67,060 of its members on the suspended list last year. In spite of this, the number of communicants enrolled was the largest the church has known, the donations per person the most generous yet recorded...
They sent him to the Union College of Law (later part of Northwestern University) in Chicago and he led his class. The Illinois Superior Court engaged him as deputy clerk. He was chief clerk within seven months but soon accepted space and a smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest...
Sirs: Last Saturday night, I happened to be in the Wardell apartment hotel (one of the most exclusive apartment hotels in this city), where I was agreeably surprised to note five copies of TIME in the letter rack. My remark to the clerk on the popularity of the publication brought forth this reply: "Yes, sir; about half the people in this hotel read TIME-have you ever read it?" OWEN MACCAFFERTY Detroit, Mich...
Last week, the day before the first anniversary of Gertrude Ederle's brass-band-accompanied swim across the English Channel, one Edward Harry Temme, 22-year-old London insurance "clark" (clerk), inserted his strong body (length, 6 ft. 2 in.; weight, 205 Ibs.) into the bitterly cold waves off Cape Gris-Nez, France, and commenced a steady trudgeon stroke toward England...