Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a Los Angeles municipal courtroom was wheeled a stretcher bearing Busby Berkeley, No. 1 Hollywood creator of bizarre cinemusicomedy dance effects. Eyes tightly closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. "In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed," said...
...sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple, green and yellow striped bathing suits, sang I've Been Working on the Railroad and Mandy Lee. But he and his colleagues unanimously liked best the Bay City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads, put on high collars, white trousers, "dink" caps, and orange-&-black blazers, rolled gaily into Central Park on two tandem bicycles. They sang Ben Jonson's lyric Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Then they swung through...
...Grant, described by Henry Adams as "shy; jealous; sometimes vindictive; more or less dull in outward appearance; always needing stimulants." Grant was an easygoing, touchy, unimpressive soldier in his early career, later a devoted family man who failed with an almost uncanny thoroughness as a farmer, rent collector, store clerk, before he blossomed as the stolid genius of the Civil War. An essentially honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President. His administrations are remembered less for their legislative measures than...
...past summer, the interior of the Hygiene Building has been rearranged to provide more examining rooms, a waiting room, facilities for the dental and eye clinics, and a well equipped clinical laboratory. A central desk has been provided on the second floor in order to enable an information clerk to facilitate distribution of men to the particular service desired...
...Haven John Coolidge, taciturn son of the 30th President, was drawn into conversation about his job with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Having progressed in seven years from junior clerk in the statistical bureau to the general manager's office to the accounting department to ''a responsible position" in the purchasing department, New Haven's Coolidge declared: "I love being called a railroad man. It's been highly interesting and very nice. . . . I've never really had any desire to mix in politics and there is little danger of my being asked. During the years father...