Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Mr. Thompson. Senator "J. Ham," as he used to be known when he was "the best dressed man in the Senate," smiled through his fuzzy yellow-brown whiskers. At length the jury came in with its verdict. The clerk read...
Last week, the original treaty was rediscovered. The executive clerk of the Senate, poking through the Senate library, finally uncovered it, on the fifth floor, up under the dome, stained, dusty, but whole...
Engaged. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, world's champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress, who a fortnight ago secured her final decree of divorce from Malcolm Peacock, Philadelphia bank clerk. Pugilist Dempsey plans to become a business man, to devote his time to managing his real estate interests...
...Dazen's the tale of woe reached its climax. "Not only have we not had any more men than usual," said Joe, a clerk "but there has been a decided decrease. Yes, that is absolutely so. We have had between 25 and 50 men a day less than usual. I'm sure I don't know where they all eat, if they eat at all, which seems doubtful. "No wonder," he added with a laugh, "no wonder they couldn't make Memorial Hall...
...encouragement, to Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1775; and that after his failure to develop a successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor of modern languages in the college of William and Mary. Carlo Bellini was a clerk in the treasurer's office in Florence and accompanied his friend Mazzei as a social equal to Virginia. Mazzei was an Italian physician, who had been a merchant for a few years in Smyrna, and later in London, before coming to Virginia. After Mazzei's return to Europe from Virginia...