Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's charity clinics last week went a strong-smelling, matted old man who told the entry clerk that he was 80 years old. In the examining room, an interne ordered the octogenarian to be forthwith soaked and scrubbed. Cried the oldster: "Don't put me in the bath! I've never had a bath! It will kill...
Last year onetime Representative Hogan was indicted on a charge of extorting $725 from two would-be plumbers after promising to fix them up with city licenses. Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers...
Knuckle Down? Having raised this issue, honest Broker Laval was visited daily thereafter by cultivated but crusty Sir George Clerk. This be-monocled British Ambassador looks and acts very much like the sort of diplomat Gilbert & Sullivan set to the bray of trumpets. So frequent and so overbearing were Sir George's calls that tempers were progressively lost until extreme London newsorgans like the Star began to report that, unless M. Laval knuckled down completely to His Majesty's Government, he would soon find himself forced to resign as Premier of France because all Frenchmen would see that...
Around to the Foreign Office whizzed British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to demand some sort of crackdown upon the Paris independent moderate weekly Gringoire for headlining SHOULD ENGLAND BE REDUCED TO SLAVERY? Affirming, with copious historical instances of perfidy, that England should. Gringoire concluded: "British friendship is the most cruel gift the gods could give a people...
...that impaired his physical development provided another impetus to study. Attending Amherst on borrowed funds, putting himself through Columbia Law School by tutoring and going more deeply into debt, he struggled to get the maximum value from an education that cost him so much. As an energetic law clerk, his salary was increased from $720 a year in 1900 to $3,125 in 1903, and he was soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic career and a quiet family life, he had little interest in establishing a great fortune, underwent an extraordinary period...