Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed 467 times...
...traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped...
Sued. The City of Chicago; by John Ickes, 63, brother of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes; for $31,125 in salary, $9,337 in interest, $11,000 in raises, accrued between 1926 and 1932 during which period he was removed from his job as chief clerk of the City's special assessment division for "political reasons...
...veterans voiced annoyance when 20-year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project...
...treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous, garrulous lawyer's clerk, secretly a radical who lacks the courage to state his views or the resourcefulness to try to achieve them. Luisa recognizes Fernando's weaknesses, loves him as the one individual who has broken the monotonous pattern of her life...