Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayfair as "P. G." (Prince George). In solemn mood Pianist "P. G." went to Edinburgh last week to represent his father as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Completely surrounded by Presbyterians, he sat soberly on the speakers' platform while the Clerk of the Assembly, the elderly Rev. James Taylor Cox, rose to read King George's message, a letter that had arrived by King's Messenger with a number of others from Buckingham Palace...
...Clerk Cox rapped for order and intoned...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...
...finally turned all his assets and liabilities over to his son. A director of Remington Rand and several other companies, he owned no stock of value, had but one asset, a bank account containing $153.63. By order of the judge, Oldster Rand made over the $153.63 to the County Clerk, took a poor debtor's oath, went home...
...cinematic running mate called "$10 Raise," supplies the perfect antidote for all this. Edward Everett Horton is a meticulous office-clerk who needs this precise advancement in his wordly fortunes in order to marry Karen Morley...