Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith came from a family which, in the industrial feudalism of the new South, occupied at Kannapolis, N. C. a position analogous to that of the Reynolds family at Winston-Salem. The Cannon textile mills were founded by James Cannon who started out as a clerk in a Concord, N. C. general store just after the Civil War. Old James Cannon had five sons, four of them given to jollity and excesses, one given to sober industry. He willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move...
Richard Bennett, as the steel magnate who decides on his deathbed to dispense his fortune in million dollar lots to names in the city directory, acts consistently well throughout the production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective...
Manager S. J. Ballinger of Dunhill's Manhattan store reluctantly nodded to a clerk. The clerk hopped out to the teeming corner of 5th Avenue & 43rd Street to summon the busy traffic officer. The officer set off smartly down West 43rd Street...
...Thanks," he said as the clerk handed over the money. To a big-city friend the drummer said, as they strolled out of the lobby: "I had that hick all hot & bothered, keeping this $100 bill for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the bill to light a cigar...