Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high...
...cultivated voice. It carried a New England twang. Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, lolling in the presiding officer's chair, peered toward the rear of the Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote...
...authors of "America" have admittedly written a secondary-school text-book, but we are reviewing it briefly here because of its value as a reference which is useful on one's desk...
...which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped...
...response of loyal customers last week warmed the heart of President Tily. He beamed when he read that his plan had been roundly approved by Manhattan's Macy's. Sitting at his desk in shirtsleeves, President Tily confided to a newshawk that the scheme pleased him because it was "ethically and morally right." Pious and high-minded son of a poverty-stricken English gentleman, he is a stanch believer in the ethics of NRA, once advocated a 3-hour working day. Doubtless he had in mind his early years at Strawbridge & Clothier where, at 14, he went...