Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business houses do. Some colleges do not bother. Last week Bowdoin College at Brunswick, Maine was glad it had bothered. For the past six years Bowdoin's bursar has been John Coolidge Thalheimer, quiet and popular, a member of Delta Upsilon, who after graduation from Bowdoin became clerk under the college treasurer in 1923 and three years later bursar. Father of two, Mr. Thalheimer was divorced last year for "cruel and abusive treatment." was ordered to pay $150 a month alimony for three years. Last August, Bursar Thalheimer went off on a holiday. During his absence, auditors found discrepancies...
Died. William George Bradley, Fifth Earl of Craven, 35; at Pau, France. At 19. he married the town clerk's daughter, went to war, lost a leg. At 24 he inherited the title when his father drowned. Soon afterwards he eloped with the wife of Earl Cathcart. After several years of travel, they visited the U. S. The Earl of Craven was admitted, Countess Cathcart barred on the ground of "moral turpitude...
...black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk, long jobless, she had died in a manner favored by many a New York suicide...
...ingenious overcoming of the interest rate in selling credit to the wayfaring man. . . . The mechanic or clerk ... to . . . buy a car, or bury his grandmother, must pay anywhere from 10 to 100% per annum for the privilege...
...trade for a clerk is bird-painting. A man must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally...