Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friday afternoon and the Metropolitan Opera House was still. In the musty old office which had been Giulio Gatti-Casazza's sat new Manager Herbert Witherspoon, 61, clearing his desk after weeks of planning and budgeting. On Saturday he was to sail for Europe, leaving an announcement of his plans for the world to know on Monday. The last of 279 auditions was over...
...desk, which he rarely quits before 7 p. m., Publisher Sulzberger is quietly brisk, occasionally pausing in his talk to reach for the automatic telephone, flip by memory one of the hundred-odd numbers in the Times private exchange. He reads all editorials in galley proof, sprays his staff with marked clippings, suggestions for stories and editorials...
...Jefferson City, Mo., when the State Legislature voted to turn over the House Chamber to the convention of the P. E. O. Sisterhood, Representative Louis E. Browning voted nay, stayed at his desk throughout the women's convention...
...Vagabond, already weary from the morning's tasks, lounged at his desk. Philosophy texts stared at him as if to say only they mattered and the day in all its May glory was naught. Note books, bearing no sign of service, lay scattered on the desk; Anatole France was there in "The crime of Sylvestro Bonnard"; and somewhere there also was Omar Khayyam, the winter sage. Then, sandwiched, unhappily it seemed, between a man of science on one side and a philosopher on the other was "Alice in Wonderland...
...limited supply of free tickets may be had by applying at the information desk, University Hall...