Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...referee and starter, and his place will be taken a Friday by James Roosevelt, a Cambridge resident and former Harvard oarsmen. Dwight Bradford Hill '08, Boston engineer, will be the timer, James McCrae, of the Harvard Athletic Association, will be a judge of the finish, and Jack Hartnett '28, clerk of the course. On Friday, N. Henry Black '96, director of the Summer School, will act as honorary referee, and will present the silver-first-place medals and the bronze second-place medals to the victorious finalists...
...sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...
...either Art or Fate that the head clerk in the London branch of J. P. Morgan & Co. is, like a most celebrated Wodehouse character, named Jeeves...
Mama Loves Papa (Paramount). A timid little clerk (Charles Ruggles) who loves making puns like "sanctuary much" which his fat wife (Mary Boland) fails to appreciate, appears at his office one morning dressed in a cutaway coat. This is because his wife has been lecturing him on the advantages of fine feathers; his employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that...
...regatta is being organized by Blake Dennison, the coach of Summer School rowing. He will be assisted in running of the events, by Pack Hartner as Clerk of the Course, who helped him originatae the races three years ago. N. Henry Black '96, Director of the Harvard Summer Session, officiated last year and may again be requested to judge the races...