Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private office of the Clerk of Cook County (Chicago), the Earl of Northesk obtained a license to marry Jessica Brown, formerly of the Follies. The special correspondent of The New York Times quoted the Earl as having said: "Oh, I say, can't this be done with a bit of decent quietness, don't you know ?" This is an excellent example of stupid and slovenly reporting. The Earl does not talk that way; the special correspondent of the Times made the Earl say what he (the correspondent) thought an Englishman would...
...assailant, Millutone Raitch by name, is a Serbian bank clerk working in Budapest, capital of Hungary. He ascribed his action to personal motives. No political significance is attributed to the incident, although it has aroused great indignation among the people...
Divorce. If you are a gum chewer, female, happily married to a drug clerk, this picture will reveal just what is going to happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works...
Presbyterians. Figures announced by Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, show that the church has gained over 46,000 members through the last year, and has passed, for the first time, the 1,800,000 mark in total membership. The Presbyterians have 9.706 churches and 9,979 pastors. Their Sunday School membership is 300.000 less than their church membership. The government of the Presbyterian Church is much like the government of the United States. Alexander Hamilton, author of the Federalist, was a Presbyterian, and is supposed to have drawn some of his inspiration...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...