Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church-member situation jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving to make churchgoing more religious than social...
...widespread interest by his plan for the electrification of the entire country under one mammoth system for all railroads, street cars, factories, farms and houses. Died. Jerome Klapka Jerome, 68, famed author and humorist; at Northampton, England; of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was progressively, from 14 years on, office clerk, actor, author, editor; wrote Three Men in a Boat, Passing of the Third Floor Back, Wood Barrow Farm, etc. Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Richard le Gallienne, who liked him, wrote for his periodicals...
...dentist's assistant in Africa, held Call Boy's ticket in the Calcutta sweepstakes. It paid $814,800.* Cautious Mr. Kilpatiick had sold half of his ticket to a syndicate for $50,000, so his personal profit was only $457,400. William Jones, 60, retired clerk living peacefully at Felixtowe, won the Stock Exchange sweepstakes of $363,750 after selling three-quarters of his ticket...
First instalments of Feodor Chaliapin's autobiography were syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers. He wrote that he could remember when he was five, living in East Central Russia in a hut costing a ruble and a half per month.* His father, a clerk, "was very fond of drink and on one occasion did not come home for two days. . . . After a time he became intoxicated every pay day" and beat Mrs. Chaliapin...
...lively life. From earliest boyhood he had been in and out of "hot water." Expelled for pranks from Black River Academy, expelled for "his love of fun" from the University of Vermont, he managed to finish his education at Princeton. The next few years he served as night clerk in a Florida hotel, acted in a Denver stock company, reported for newspapers, punched cows, mastered the traveling man's profession. He sailed to England on a cattleship, batting around at many an odd job and alwayssto this he attributes his success?always keeping "well-dressed and well-groomed." Satisfied finally...