Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year a young Serbian bank clerk tried to assassinate him (TIME, July 9, 1923). To make a repetition of this act more difficult, he now rides about Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, in an automobile with opaque glass windows...
...afternoon session opened promptly one hour and twelve minutes late. Mr. Cummings was again introduced and read the platform or rather he began to read it, was relieved by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, who in turn was relieved by a reading clerk...
...morning last week, as the Senate was about to open, and the Lieutenant Governor was walking up the aisle, the President pro tem of the Senate, a Republican, mounted the rostrum and attempted to call the meeting to order and proceed with the Appropriation Bill. As the reading clerk began to read, a Democratic Senator snatched the Bill from his hands. A general battle of fisticuffs ensued which the Sheriff was obliged to quell. The incident passed...
...Author. Thomas Beer, born in 1889 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and graduated from Yale College and Colum bia Law School, has been by turns lawyer's clerk, field-artilleryman, magazine contributor. Among his novels: The Fair Rewards, Stephen Crane...
...tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there were still traditional singers and traditional story-tellers gave him a grounding in the speech and thoughts of folk writing. At 18 he was a clerk in a railway office. Before twenty, he was writing plays and verse. Among his friends were W. B. Yeats and "A. E." from whom he learned of poetry. The men and women who were building up the Irish Theatre, Willie and Frank Fay, Dudley and Mary Digges, taught him of theatrical matters...