Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagination glittering with the romanticism of Alfred de Musset. He lived a Bohemian life, indolent, unspeakably shabby, a starveling writing silly verses. He took a harlot to live with him, thus ending his long virginity which was to be a jibe in later salons. He became a publisher's clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound...
Associated with Davison was the late Levi P. Morton, chairman, and the late Alexander J. Hemphill, president. Among their vice presidents was swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, Massachusetts farmer's son who in youth had been a flour dealer's clerk, and blond William Chapman Potter, Chicago-born mining engineer. The two were brothers-in-law, their wives the daughters of the late Paul Morton, variously President of the Burlington Railroad, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims...
Graybar Electric Co.: Frank A. Ketcham, onetime stock clerk, to be President; succeeding A. L. Salt, onetime office boy, who becomes Chairman; following the company's sale by A. T. & T. to its employees...
William Shelby, acted by Charles "Buddy" Rogers, imaginative, alert, and determined clerk in a high class music store, falls in love with one who is heir to $20,000,000, Mary Brian, who, of course, does not object to him. She does the obvious, but her position in the social world does not long remain a secret. The ship of good fortune, sailing along with spinnakers set runs onto a hidden reef in the form of a pair of Shelby's fortune-hunting friends. Nothing, however, can possibly down our determined music salesman...
...hardware store on Lake Street, Chicago, had for a messenger boy 15-year-old Arthur Cutten. Soon Arthur Cutten, still a messenger boy, was working for a commission house. From messenger boy he became a clerk for A. S. White, onetime president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Later he was one of A. S. White's pit traders. Then he entered the grain market for himself, and during the World War is said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less...