Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendor of granite towers watched his adolescence. He was born in Philadelphia, in 1860, and worked as a clerk in a railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine?when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from...
...WISDOM TOOTH?The fantasy of recaptured youth which enabled a young clerk to tell his employer...
More hastily, Senator Metcalf nodded a relieved assent. The Vice President struck the untraditional telegram from the record. Senator Reed proceeded leisurely to teach Senator Metcalf that, before sending to the clerk such a letter or telegram, the recipient confers with the Senator attacked?to teach him other lessons in the traditions of a most traditional Chamber...
...last week, all this having been done and finished, the Senate got down to the serious business of the Italian debt. After many hours of debate, there was a lull. Veteran Senators became aware that the clerk was reading something. Listening, they heard it to be a seething telegram. Mystified, they whisperingly questioned one another, learned that the Junior Senator from Rhode Island (Jesse Houghton Metcalf) had sent to the clerk this telegram from a constituent, Angelo Morello, who had become incensed by re marks made the previous day by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri.* "Scurrilous, venomous...
...clerk's dry voice ceased and in dryer voice Senator Reed spoke: "Does the Senator know that he has violated every rule of the Senate, and not only that, but it is also a violation of the ordinary rules of courtesy...