Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corpulent Frenchman steps on the scales, clocking 220 Ibs. "Pardon, M'sieur," says the clerk. "You cannot travel today. Even without your baggage you would put the Concorde over its weight limit...
Another part of his big-city dream evaporates. He wants to be a network sportscaster but ends up a clerk. His boss advises him to cultivate some sexual deviation if he hopes to succeed in New York. All Suggs can manage is a garden-variety divorce. Then the city moves in on him like an octopus, with one tentacle assaulting him, a second robbing him and a third depositing him babbling on a park bench along with a pair of kooks. This would be as painful as it is abrupt were it not for Playwright Wiltse's engagingly fanciful...
Nearly half a century ago, Quentin Reynolds (no kin to the late writer) was a fruit clerk in an Oakland grocery store, and Safeway Stores was a small California supermarket chain. Since then, both have had more than the normal diet of success. Early last year the powerfully built and congenial Reynolds, 66, was named chairman of Safeway, which has no mandatory retirement rule for that job. Now, for the first time, Safeway is the world's largest food retailer. Last week the chain reported sales of $5,511,000,000, just squeaking...
Uncle Antoine mostly drinks and gossips with his cronies while his wife and his clerk attend to the business. It is the Christmas season, Benoit conducts a flirtation with a young salesgirl, and there is promise of festivity. Villagers gather in front of the store to watch the display window being ceremonially unveiled as if it held half the world's treasure. It seems, at first, an innocent time...
...falls into a drunken stupor on the journey home ward, and the unguarded coffin slides into the snow from the back of the sleigh. Benoit, unable to rouse his uncle, rides to Black Lake for help and finds his aunt enjoying her own Christmas party in bed with the clerk...