Word: clerking
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...Painting," Bernard's father, an insurance clerk, warned, "is a hungry profession." But Bernard didn't go hungry long. Of his first 30 melancholy canvases ("Who will buy these dreary things?" his art dealer asked), he sold 26. He has been selling ever since...
...then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...
...tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French Foreign Legionnaire wrote: "Only reason of request is to evade this life of a clerk which I live with much intolerance...
Live Wire. In Boston, Telegraph Clerk Virginia Sullivan carefully counted the ten words of a customer's message, handed over $500 as soon as she had absorbed it: "This is a stickup. Quiet and you won't get hurt...
Before he was old enough to vote, William Larimer Mellon decided that he had not been born to sit at a desk. He refused to finish school, was miserable as a shipping clerk. To curb his restlessness, staid Uncle Andrew Mellon assigned him some oil leases that had turned up in the course of some family deals. To them, William added scores of others. He built a refinery and pipeline, surprised his money-wise family by organizing an integrated oil business which he sold to the Rockefellers in 1895 for about twice what it cost...