bookkeeperess

Example Sentences

• "Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing. They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble. In San Francisco the bookkeeper of a commission house, a young woman, became so fascinated with the sport of automobiling that she appropriated hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of her employers’ money—just like a man bookkeeper might have done. The “chug wagon” costs money for stabling and repairs. Female bookkeepers and cashiers should be bonded as well as their brothers."
• "“Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess."
• "A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pencil had rolled off the desk in the bookkeeper’s office and struck the bookkeeperess on the knee just at the moment she spied a mouse scurrying across the floor. The mouse escaped and the lady is expected to recover."
• "The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys."
• "Helen Seevers, editor of the Kingsway Page, a house bulletin at that west side inn, has an interesting column headed, “Heard at the Front Desk” . . . . Where Bookkeeperess Agnes Lyons hears all that is to be heard. . . ."
• "Margaret Perrat, attractive bookkeeperess over at Triangle Liquor Co., puts in ample time and exhibits great patience to keep the company figures, states Harry Hyer, company salesmanager."