Word: clerking
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...While collecting votes last year, Victor Aloysius Meyers impulsively invited a former movie-palace organist, just discharged from the Army, to come to the State Capitol some time and play for the legislature. Organist Phil Raboin eventually showed up in Olympia, was put on the state payroll as a clerk and assigned to soothe ruffled legislative nerves with a daily recital...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...
...action), Martin, who is important to the Allies for some unknown reason, tries to make his escape from the carefully guarded, Hotel Berlin. In the same surroundings, a Nazi general is purged for his part in the plot on Hitler's life and an old, tottering room clerk becomes drafted into der Fuehrer's army in the picture's only humorous scene...
...homemade fudge. Oldtimers pondered Surry's attendance-the smallest town meeting in years-and concluded that "everybody's working." Mason was pleased that its police department cost only $8 in 1944, but voted to give it an additional $17 for 1945. Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office...
Power of Suggestion: In Arkansas City, Kans., City Clerk James Clough lay ill in bed, was visited by a friend, the sexton of the Riverview Cemetery, who was soon followed by the pastor of the Central Christian Church. When another friend, who was also an undertaker, dropped in to cheer him, Clough got up, rushed back to work...