Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never for an instant seems to be the Jew he is supposed to be. Good shot: a plaintively self-conscious clerk inviting Lawyer Simon's secretary out to lunch...
...beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty as charged, then he ought to be acquitted." Twenty-six hours later came a resounding thump on the brown wooden jury room door. The bailiff let the jurors out. The foreman unfisted a moist crumpled note, handed it to the clerk. A thin smile faded from Patterson's lips as the clerk read his third death sentence...
...secretly opened in the presence of reliable dignitaries-Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan. president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Professor William Wright, president of the Anatomical Society; William Foxley Norris, dean of Westminster and of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath; Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher, chapter clerk of Westminster Abbey; and Lawrence Edward Tanner, keeper of muniments of Westminster Abbey...
...stated "Two officers and a pay clerk were crushed to death." This insinuates that Chief Pay Clerk John W. Troy, killed in that accident, was not an officer. May I inform you that Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer in every sense of the word as indicated by his commission which reads exactly the same as that of any other commissioned officer with the exception of his title...
...President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...