Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of two letters they tried to prove that Minister Wauters was guilty of selling military planes and munitions to Spanish Leftists despite Belgian adherence to the Non-intervention Committee. Admittedly the two letters had been stolen from M. Wauters' desk. In the chamber M. Wauters was able to prove: that the planes were three obsolete Fokkers of no military use, bought in August 1936, several months before M. Wauters was a Cabinet Minister, a week before Belgium entered the Non-intervention agreement, and 2) that the planes are still in Belgium...
...heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...
...TIME'S editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
Here TIME'S three chief writers shared a long narrow cell barely big enough for three desks end to end. The editor sat at a desk in a large room surrounded by smaller desks for typists and half-a-dozen college girls (at one time from Smith, at others from Mt. Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley)-the beginnings of a research staff...
...Affairs editor, the head of the correspondents, the picture editor are each notified. In ten minutes a telegram is on its way to Casper Zinkowitz' hometown, the picture editor is giving instructions to a photographer by long distance. Next morning the National Affairs editor will find on his desk a report of interviews with Zinkowitz' former law partner and boyhood friends. Meanwhile duplicate photographs of the justice-to-be are flying air mail to the printers in Chicago and editor in Manhattan...