Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell off his high perch, broke his ankle. Marge Slogar, 22-year-old Lithuanian who starred at left field on the Cleveland Bloomer Girls' softball championship team last year, swaggered around the alleys...
When the bill was brought up for amendment last week, the reading clerk rattled through it like a train announcer, skipping paragraphs and whole sections, flipping three or four pages at a time. Primed to offer an amendment, Wisconsin's Progressive Harry Sauthoff discovered that the clerk had passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced...
...officers suffered from this mental scurvy at times, but Huxley and the ship's clerk (whom, in good Victorianese, he calls "M.") developed a real feud. The quarrel was finally settled when Huxley insisted on a showdown before the captain, disproved all M.'s chimerical innuendoes, forced him to sign a retraction. In Australia, where the Rattlesnake based for several exploratory cruises, Huxley found pleasanter society, fell in love with a Miss Henrietta Heathorn, and diarized about her at a great rate. They were engaged eight years, finally married in England...
...supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt for the bail of John Torrio, paid in full...
...Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...