Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other things, I enlarged my printing outfit and during the summers I took it to a resort in Maine and opened my own job office. At the same time I served as night clerk in one of the hotels. For a while I printed the menu at Memorial Hall and taught night school, and for two terms I worked in the Library. I mended shoes and repaired bicycles, and to this day a certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family...
Fortunes exchanged hands. One James Carew, shipping clerk of Liverpool, won the Calcutta Sweepstake,** amounting to $365,000. As he had sold two quarter shares in his ticket for about $25,000, his net gain was only about $207,000, but enough to provide James Carew with a thrill...
...other characters shed varying degrees of light. One was a cattle drover. Out of animal fear, to lay the ghost of a girl he had beaten dead, he protected a girl whom someone else had seduced. Another was a hulking bank clerk, one Malden. He was benevolent toward chess, Nature and Rose Netley. Rose, was a social worker to whom all fallen girls were "sisters," She did a certain amount of temporary good in an enthusiastic...
...from serious critics, his every movement is listened to with interest. In this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next to Mr. Gershwin, the chief contributors...
...Taubensi The first to arrive was Prussian Minister of Justice Zehnhof, follow by Acting President Walter Simons, to vote for a successor to himself. Next came Foreign Minister and Frau tav Stresemann. Dr. Stresemann began to make out his ballot on a table, was told by a clerk that he must do it in a booth. With a sigh and a terrific squeeze; the portly Doktor entered a small booth. At Potsdam, Prince Friedrich, second son of the ex-Kaiser, and a number of former courtiers apathetically recorded their votes. From Munich, in the south, came the that General Ludendorff...