Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been at different times a dentist's assistant, an electrical engineer, an errand boy, a stenographer, an insurance clerk and a job printer, mechanical dexterity came easy. Studying painting at various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
Said Editor Yewdale: "We declined the gift because it was an insult; every clerk in the place got $2.50. In other words, it was too damn cheap, too damn low. It was an insult, not a gift...
Helen Hayes' father was a man named Brown who did a number of things, none of them very profitably. For a brief time he worked as a clerk in the Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later...
Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...
...Oyez, oyez, Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford, in the name of the King come forth and save you and your bail or else you forfeit your recognizance!" cried the Clerk...