Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago. young Alphonso Mires (alias Meyers, alias Mieri), 19-year-old son of a Manhattan greengrocer, set out to hold up a cigar store. With several companions he bound the clerk, shooed a patron into a telephone booth, rifled the till. All was going nicely when a negro entered the store. The bewildered intruder was ordered out of the way, then shot down. Alphonso Mires's confreres said...
...Sure it's O.K., lady!" cried the clerk. "You can see for yourself. Me?I give this gin to my old father...
...credo of most Americans is that Bulgarians live to be centenarians because they drink quantities of fermented buttermilk. Many a sallow clerk and skinny stenographer, impressed with the idea, gulps down some form of cultured lactose at lunch. Last week came different news about Bulgar longevity...
...others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes to church; she washes dishes; she likes literary societies and the Y. W. C. A. Her average home has an automobile, a bathtub and a sewing machine and fewer than 200 books...
...kind of Manhattan clerk you see in the subway-talking loud and big, ogling flappers, staring down anyone who dared to meet his eye. This story tells how he spent a day, a night. As Jim is a perfect type, except for being a little more galvanically lively than the ordinary, his is a story that tells much about Manhattan, about the hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost...