When Michael Shaw, a railway clerk, struggled for control of one of the bags of cash, he was shot through the head.
Post offices, where many Italians pay their utility bills and receive pension payments, nearly ground to a halt as clerks struggled to handle bills and checks written in lire.
The good wishes of Queen Victoria mattered most to him, but postal clerks struggled more with the barrage of congratulations from abroad, often in foreign languages and sometimes containing hundreds of words - so many that the vast bulk had to be left unopened.
Gil Seinfeld, who some describe as Scalia's most progressive clerk, admits he struggled with reconciling the mentor he knew privately with the justice's public persona.
Jerry Martinez, a general contractor, and his wife, Marcie, an accounts clerk, are among the struggling owners in Mountain House.
Thus, in a city that is home to some of the finest law firms and legal minds on this planet, the field of successful Civil and Supreme Court candidates perennially includes a surfeit of undistinguished law clerks and sitting judges, struggling practitioners looking for a steady job, and other politically connected mediocrities.
But when the Justices gathered in private to discuss the Jenkins case, some of them later told their clerks, Thomas spoke fervently of his own youthful struggles with the reality of Jim Crow.
As Gregor struggles to crawl off his bed, a clerk from his company calls at the Samsa apartment.
Cult US comedian Jenny Slate plays Donna, a struggling stand-up comic and New York bookstore clerk who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand with an amiable stranger.
The son of a poor tenant farmer, Vinje took a law degree but then struggled to support himself by teaching, writing, and working as a government clerk.
