Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Henry George Stebbins Noble applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...
...stock clerk at $18 weekly in William Fileno & Sons' department store bargain basement, John spent the day changing price tags on women's dresses...
...When Mr. Andrews finished his oath, Clerk Gompers said, smiling: "And may the Lord have mercy on your soul." Madam Secretary Perkins looked surprised. "Why Sam," she said, "you never gave any of the rest of us a blessing when we were sworn...
...Manhattan court, Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. was about to deliver his charge to the jury in an assault case, when he noticed that Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
Ferdinand's earliest memories are only slightly less poisonous than his later ones. Son of an insurance clerk (''a drivelling great ape, with his head full only of fury, pretences and louder and louder yellings: a whole clattering chaos of idiocies"), and a well-meaning but uncherished mother who runs a dilapidated antique shop, Ferdinand recalls malicious neighborhood gossip, scandals, a murder, a tough playmate who taught him much smut, another playmate who went to the country and died of fresh air. But these are among his lighter reminiscences. Most haunting memory is of his father accusing...