Word: clerking
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...when the Seventh Duke of Devonshire (whose family name was Cavendish) gave Cambridge $31,500 to start a physics department. First building was a three-story, L-shaped affair which is still standing, though its once-white stone is now black with age. First director was James Clerk Maxwell, a Scotsman who as a schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must...
...ticket counter a soft-voiced woman had the ear of a clerk. "Can I get two tickets to Boston?" she inquired. The clerk asked who the other passenger...
...hearse outside," the woman explained. The clerk's eyes widened. "I must get him to Boston," pleaded the woman, "his funeral's tomorrow." Too busy was the harried clerk to find out whether the woman had intended upending the cadaver in the other seat, or whether she supposed that airliners, like trains, carried baggage cars ahead...
...scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...