Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before he boarded the Potomac last week, the President completed action on the last of 937 bills passed and sent to the White House by Congress in its last session. Of the year's total, the President signed 897, vetoed 40. Last week at his Hyde Park desk, he signed: the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill (TIME, Aug. 30); a bill to permit exports of helium in ''non-military" quantities; a bill authorizing $2,760,000 to be appropriated for restoring U. S. wildlife (see p. 48); a bill providing $2,000,000 to purchase reindeer herds...
...dispatch which carried no logotype. Colonel Knox's face, normally ruddy and smiling, became ruddy and grim. He strode into his office, whose walnut panels once adorned the private library of late News Publisher Victor Lawson. Popping down before his little typewriter beside his great desk, Publisher Knox jangled the keys. In rare rough rider style he rattled off an editorial ripping into AP-the great press association of which Publisher Victor Lawson was founder, of which Melville Stone (founder of the News) was long general manager. He wrote...
...ramshackle office of Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...
Hollywood legend has it that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...
...Hemingway called for a mutual baring of bosoms. What next occurred is the subject of variorum accounts. Author Eastman's version: "I knew he could knock me out quickly in a boxing match, so I grappled with him and threw him on his back across Max Perkins' desk and then over the desk and down on his head in a corner." Author Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were bruises, on his arms, scars. His version: "Max Eastman didn't do that to me. I got so mad . . . that I wound...