Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk was out of them and wrote the thing down on a plain piece of paper...
...When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...
...incidents of his trip to illustrate what he denounced as the snobbery, discourtesy, superciliousness, selfishness, greed, hypocrisy and effrontery of many a white missionary, military and business man in the Orient. He told of a Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor Farrington's dinner party to his own white heat of indignation and then, suddenly, blazed out: "There...
...Irish households, soft-shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will love...
...following officers for 1927-1928 were elected at Monday night's meeting; Honorary President, Professor F. G. Peabody '69; Chairman, E. H. L. Sexton '25; Clerk, C. H. Pforzheimer, Jr '28; Treasurer, D. H. Gordon '25; Typographer, E. A. Wieser...