Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then into the short-termers' dormitory. Next morning he took up his duties as file clerk. His jailer announced that he would be allowed outdoors "twice a week," could entertain visitors in the basement on Sunday night...
...serve as principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense...
...Blyth, Ont., John Cowan got a job as police chief, street inspector, sanitary engineer, weed inspector, Memorial Hall caretaker, trusty clerk, liquor law enforcement officer, clerk of the weigh scales, school bellringer and Town Council handyman. Salary: $600 a year...
...Chief Justice, in order to avoid an unnecessary crowding of the Court room on Monday [Feb. 4], directs the clerk to announce that the Court is not ready as yet to announce a decision in the gold clause cases and hence there will be no announcement on that...
...swaggering unprincipled clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father...