Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in 1860 when Ulysses S. Grant was a clerk at Galena, this cool-headed Yankee pursued his blue-eyed way through school, through Annapolis, on to the Senatorship and Cabinet Portfolio as Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. Meanwhile he had become a millionaire-Hornblower & Weeks, bond house. Political observers in 1921 saw for John Weeks a flower-strewn path to the White House...
Engaged. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (Fairmont, Pa., capitalist-industrialist) ; to one R. D. Morgan, Philadelphia Bell Telephone clerk...
...insurance clerk sat in an office in Cornhill, England, arranging typewritten papers in neat dockets and whistling cheerily as if to show his indifference to the rain that beat a tattoo on his roof -like drumming hoofs, he thought. King George of England sat staring politely into the same rain from a box at a race track. In a leather chair in Berkeley Square, London, Lord Woolavington (once Sir James Buchanan) regarded the lengthening silver ash of his cigar, and though separated from each other by space and, apparently by opposing interests, the fortunes of these three gentlemen were interwoven...
...barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
...reads alone in his study and freely discusses intellectual problems with his fellows. The Harvard man of today can find refuge from telephone, roommates and callers only in the Widener Library. He seldom discusses his reading with anyone and too often reads with the spirit of a clock-watching clerk-so many pages or chapters to be got through...