Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more fuss than buying a pencil, a new nationwide department store chain was started last week. Merchandiser Walter Hoving (rhymes with roving), who had resigned his $135,000-a-year job as president of Lord & Taylor five months ago, made a deal to buy Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc. ("High Class but not High...
André Le Plantier, 50, meek-eyed bank teller: "At the liberation, when I saw the sacrifices they made for France, I felt a moral obligation...
...Italy in that remodeled San Francisco saloon [TIME, April 15] has one mistake. The assistant cashier, Armando Pedrini, was not the saloon's bartender. Armando Pedrini, graduate of the Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica in 1931. By the time the plan had failed...
...Joint Council would openly declare administration policy, and while no provision is made for expelling a rebellious party member, a record of individual action on party issues would be made public. The cowardly anonymity of a "teller" vote, which was used in the House on the devitalizing amendments to draft legislation, would be no longer available to political opportunists. Adoption of the reform committe's proposals will increase party responsibility, enable Congress to discharge its functions more efficiently, and provide a government at once more responsive to popular desires and more capable of decisive action...
...Giono has little of Thoreau's warm passion for facts of nature, even less of his intellectual Puritanism. Born in 1895, at Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic. He is a teller of wry, earthy stories of the peasants in whom he professes to see the joy of the good life embodied. He has written about these people, sometimes bafflingly but always with zest and imagination, in The Song of the World, Harvest, and Joy of Man's Desiring...