"Payroll" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hands. The stranger had not volunteered his name and Tod had not asked for it. Names go for little among men who obey orders; they serve merely as labels and are useful in a payroll, but they do not add to the value of the owner or help his standing in any way. "Shorty" or "Fatty" or "Big Mike" is all sufficient. What the man can DO and how he does ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith
... day a box was added to the equipment of the freight-office and the name of Frank A. Scott to the payroll. ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
... while he was arranging the pads of paper for the regular Monday morning conference, overheard the office-manager telling about this affair (I have good reason to believe that it was a matter of carelessness in the payroll) and saying that he considered ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley
... good-humoredly, "it's a pretty tough country up yonder and I suppose the lad's of some service. You're saving us a pile of money in experts' fees and I don't see why you shouldn't put him on the company's payroll. I mentioned the thing to ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... Prudentia had introduced the so-called workmen's insurance, the number of clerks on its payroll had been increased by about twenty-five thousand. Of these eighty-four were under Diruf's direct supervision. They were located in three rooms of a house in Fuerther Street. They were pale and they were silent. Diruf himself had a private office which ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann |
