Word: clerking
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...Clerk of court: "Under your argument, Home Guards capturing tanks would be able to keep them...
...hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning of the war. In his apartment they found six suitcases full of stolen or copied Embassy documents, among them a letter from Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt which had been handed to the Embassy that very morning...
With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
...small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could tell a friend that he had been "ten years a policeman and five years a hotel clerk...
...Stage (25?) is mostly the work of 51-year-old Publisher Ince. Born Sandor Incze, a native of Cluj (restored to Hungary last month by Adolf Hitler), he started out as a law clerk, newspaper reporter, smalltime aviation promoter. In Cluj, when he was 19, Publisher Ince founded his first theatre journal: a weekly magazine of programs and gossip, Theatre News. The local stock company changed its bill each night, charged 5? for programs. Young Ince sold his sheet for 3? saved readers from 2? to 27? a week...