Word: clerking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of the top Mitsuis, though not exactly starving, were already jobless. They had returned, full circle, to the aristocratic idleness of the time before old Sokubei, the brewer. The most sadness, however, was expressed by one of the Mitsui "clerks" (actually a top executive), a grey, frail little man named Tatsuo Sumi, who is said to be descended from a 17th Century Mitsui clerk or banto. Tatsuo talked like an aging English butler whose lord & lady had come on evil times. "I have given my life to Mitsui," he said; "there is nothing more to do. . . . A glorious history...
...Canada was far from through with Canadians who had been in cahoots with the Soviet spies. In Ottawa the Mounties picked up the first of nine Canadians named in the Royal Commission's final report. He was William Pappin, a passport clerk, and he was accused of issuing a false Canadian passport for a Russian agent who had been operating in Los Angeles...
Officials in the sculling regatta are Edward A. Callanan '41 of Winthrop House, clerk of the course, and Bruce Purnie '41, referee...
...really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined Nelson's hat falling off in Trafalgar Square." Japan was hardly more interested. Said Mrs. Kiku Mori, a Tokyo housewife: "We Japanese women do not like to think of these things." In Shanghai's bars the crack-of-the-week was: "The Russians will probably...
...exhibit was done after the first of Remington's countless western tours. He made the trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...