Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become "the hero of 16,000 inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks...
...moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears to this day a peg leg; loses 1 in. of his 5-ft.-6-in. stature. He then tried teaching school, found it dull; managed a baseball team, found it unremunerative; worked as clerk in the Secretary of State's office in Springfield (the only political office he has ever held). He had tasted political atmosphere and liked it. In Chicago he drank deeper under...
...Shelton was clerk to the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate when the then Senator Chamberlain was conspicuous as its chairman during...
...film they have taken many of the skits which he has made famous in vaudeville and revues and strung them together in a loose and often ludicrous adventure. There is no story. Mr. Fields plays a village druggist who involves himself in a variety of domestic difficulties. His lovely clerk (Louise Brooks) runs away with a real estate salesman. Outside of the few metropoles which have watched Mr. Fields do all the sketches on the stage the show will be liberal and erratic amusement...
...clerk intoned in Norman French the immemorial affirmative command: "Le Roi le veult...