Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling by the City Solicitor allows the council to conduct normal business in the absence of a mayor. Acting City Clerk Paul E Healy is chairing the meetings...
...second act is less powerful, largely because the portrait of peasant life becomes redundant. The clerk Azdak, Brecht's anti-hero- who survives on wit, predatory cunning, and cowardice when the occasion demands- becomes supreme judge of the land during the period of revolutionary chaos. He gleefully accepts bribes and doles out a whimsical brand of justice that defies anyone's analysis ("Because he mixes everything up and because the rich never offer him big enough bribes, the likes of us get off lightly sometimes."). His "Golden Age was almost just," because the law of averages prevents his judgments from...
...source of Dawson's black ink in the last couple of years was Howard W. Sober, 74, a Lansing trucker and a manic bettor. Sober is the kind of plunger who, while rushing to catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, tipped an airline clerk $50 to phone a $2,000 bet to a bookie. It was altogether typical of Sober's luck that the horse lost and Internal Revenue Service agents who were following him acquired the note left with the clerk. Since Sportscaster and Hall of Fame Pitcher-Dizzy Dean introduced Sober...
...desk clerk's dressed in black...
...bizarre figure, part Peter Pan and part Midas. His days and nights are packed with people, planes, horses, telephone calls, travel and parties. Everywhere he goes, even to address staid bankers, some of his girls accompany him. Cornfeld is ordinarily as mild-mannered and soft-spoken as a shoe clerk, but he can break abruptly into profane rages. His informality prompts all of his employees to call him Bernie. But Cornfeld's financial trailblazing has altered the investment climate of Europe and helped hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens (and perhaps a few crooks as well) to acquire...