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His forehead was covered with perspiration, and the room had not been hot. "Why the devil did I thank the son of a gun?" he muttered. Next morning Mr. Hanson informed him coldly of the necessity of punching the time-clock at seven every morning, and delivered him for instruction into the hands of a fellow worker, one Charley Moore.
If one grows accustomed to being called “Sweetheart,” “Darling” on first sight, ending in the evening by the time-clock man's greeting of, “Here comes my little bunch of love!”—is it not plain that outside in the cruel world such words as a mere “How-do-you-do” or “Good morning” seem cold indeed?
The bank robbers had apparently used a most up-to-date oxyacetylene plant for cutting steel, and from the strong-room in the basement believed to be impregnable and which could only be opened by a time-clock, and, moreover, could be flooded at will they had cut out the door as butter could be cut with a hot knife.
It was a case of declarin' time out on the house. Uh-huh a whole afternoon. What's the use bein' a private sec. in good standin' unless you can put one over on the time-clock now and then? Besides, I had a social date; and, now Mr. Robert is back on the job so steady and is gettin' so domestic in his habits, somebody's got to represent the Corrugated Trust at these function things.
"How about that?" I asked him, for it puzzled me. "Well, you see, it was this way: For five days in a week I would say, 'Quite so' to my assistant, no matter what he suggested. On Saturday I would dash into the manager's office, wag my head, knit my brow, and exclaim, 'What we need around here is efficiency. And once I urged the purchase of a time-clock."
Susan passed the time-clock without punching her number for the first time in three years, and out into the sunny, unfamiliar emptiness of the streets. At the corner her heart suddenly failed her. She felt as if she could not really go away from these familiar places and people.
When the laughter caused by these words had subsided, somewhat, the two girls replied: Polly to advise and Eleanor to make a giggling explanation. Eleanor said: "You make a wonderfully accurate time-clock on Jeb's comings and goings, Sary."
It would be pointed out that many an investigation which, to the authorities of the time, appeared wholly unpromising, turned out to be of cardinal value. We should be warned that what we gain in a thousand cases through time-clock and card-catalogue methods, might be lost ten times over through the shackling of the initiative of a single man of unrecognized genius.
The day I get out of it, the day I don't have to punch that old time-clock down there next to the Complaints and Adjustment Desk, I I'll never put my foot below sidewalk level again to the hour I die. Not even if it was to take a walk in my own gold-mine." "It ain't exactly a garden of roses down there."
"Me getting up mornings to stay at home in my own darling little flat, and no basement or time-clock. Nothing but a busy little hubby to eat him nice, smelly, bacon breakfast and grab him nice morning newspaper, kiss him wifie, and run downtown to support her. Jimmie, every morning for your breakfast I'm going to fry "
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