Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judson C. Welliver, former newspaper man, was installed at the White House by President Harding as "Chief Clerk." His function has been to prepare material for speeches by the President, write letters, etc. Last week he announced that he had accepted a position with the American Petroleum Institute (at a better salary). Mr. Coolidge said he was very sorry to part with Judson Welliver...
...might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took a job as clerk, and in a few years was helping E. H. Harriman rehabilitate the Union Pacific...
...last week a voice tumbled out of the sky that made the clerk in the Mineola Courthouse lift his head from his elbow and open his eyes. He stared around him, and discovered that all the people had run into the square, where they stood, jabbering together and pointing up to heaven...
...Book of Charm. A drug clerk in a Southern village is desolated because his beloved is going to New York "to work and live". What can he do to keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...
...charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth Dana. Mildred Mac-Leod, as a dreamy girl troubled by an explosion of cloudy and fervent aspiration, plays her part with a pretty precision...