Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something of her story. Though her immigrant parents had shaken their heads, Anna Turkel had left her home and the seven younger Turkels in Woonsocket. R. I., had gone to Manhattan with a nebulous notion of studying singing. To pay for her living she got a job as candy clerk in the Metropolitan Opera House. During the acts she would sneak downstairs to listen to Ponselle, Bori, Jeritza. Now, a group of Manhattanites* are financing her for three years abroad...
...young London bank clerk (this story is in the nature of comic relief), just fired for incompetence, celebrates with an orgy of shopping, orders everything sent to a vacant house, the bill to his peppery uncle; by some miracle escapes arrest...
...Presbyterian General Council some time ago appointed a special committee to study the spiritual state of the Church. Members are: Moderator Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr; Dr. William Chalmers Covert, Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Manhattan; Frederic B. Shipp, Pittsburgh; Stated Clerk Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Philadelphia. Last week the committee made its first public act: dedicated Feb. 18 as a day of personal prayer for the 10,000 Presbyterian ministers...
...newest equation in his latest theory, the Unified Field Theory upon which he has been working since he completed the General Theory of Relativity in 1915. For the past century physicists have been striving after scientific monism. Dr. Einstein has been a monist leader. Scotland's James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) correlated light and electricity. In 1905 Dr. Einstein announced that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one world force. His General Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravity is an other world force. His hope, realized in the Unified Field Theory, was that gravity and electromagnetism would...
...plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males she met. More than tantalize she would not. Her many offers were more flattering to her figure than honorable to her sex. She was willing to marry Walter, the Jewish bank clerk, but something respectable in him drove him elsewhere. Circumstances took Ray to Manhattan. There she re-encountered Walter, less clerkly, more respectable. They drifted into a sub-rosa apartment, and she became the perfect mistress, he the perfect banker. Legally unhallowed years brought out the sacrificial-maternal in Ray, the paunchy...