Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Charles Gary Rumsey, 23, aviator son of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, founder of the Junior League; and Mary Maloney, 23, clerk in the Oyster Bay, Long Island, Welfare Department; in Manhattan...
...experiences to tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian...
...event took place on February 26, 1934, which has just had its culmination in the announcement of the appointment of Irving B. Parkhurst, Clerk of Works, as Assistant Business Manager of Harvard University...
...born 74 years ago. Another is that when he was a stripling in high school he met the principal on the street one day, kept his hat on his head because the day was cold, was expelled for rudeness. Young Ivan got a job as an office clerk, rented twelve good acres of black soil, started experimenting with plants...
Wellesley yields to none, however, in democracy. Although only about 10% of its students need to work for their college living, it is a proud Wellesley boast that by her campus dress the tycoon's daughter cannot be told from the clerk's daughter. Fashions run to inexpensive sports clothes and low-heeled shoes, with hare legs & socks much in evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount...