Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords. At each three steps they paused to bow. When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm." Earl Baldwin was clearly uncomfortable. He searched for non-existing pockets, scratched his brow, had to be reminded to sign the Lords' register, take the oath, kiss the Bible. In five minutes it was over...
...McCreery's demands regular payments on its accounts, usually in ten weekly installments. Another version is the "Letter of Credit," developed by Philadelphia's Lit Brothers and now widely emulated. The letter of credit, issued by the store's credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit of the letter but no more. Also widely used are "budget plans," varying in detail but all alike on one prime point-any type of merchandise can be bought...
Yesterday the Vagabond, exhausted by his load of examinations (mind you, a threesome in a row), walked into a travel agency in search of stimulation from the bright-colored posters and handbooks. After rummaging through the pamphlets on the main counter, during which period of ecstasy an impudent clerk glanced down with a sneer, doubting without speaking the Vagabond's ability to travel anywhere, his hands picked up a pink sheet. O, Harvard what a sight for sore eyes! Shore Excursion of the S. S. Tameriane To Boston and Harvard, Monday. August 2nd By Arrangement with the Weyman Ritcomb...
Both lads rose in the world. From schoolteacher and invoice clerk, MacDonald became in 1924 Britain's first Laborite Prime Minister. Grant started as a baker's boy in an Edinburgh biscuit company, became general manager of McVitie & Price, Ltd. and wealthy enough to give Scotland a National Library...
...glad to be alive," he wrote, "I bought more handkerchiefs than I needed. . . . Another shell broke in the street, and this time we heard a boy screaming six or eight times, each time weaker than the last. . . . 'Show me some scarfs,' I said to the clerk...