Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under normal, non-examination period conditions, about 700 books are signed out at desk three each...
...girl paused at the bell desk. The fat girl stumbled, and fell sprawling on the floor when she was thirty feet from them. "Oh," she panted, "I'm terribly sorry. I thought you was someone else, sir." The man and the girl walked out into Copley Square...
Last week, with a tape recorder whirring away under his desk, Knight called Alderman on the carpet. Said Knight, later: "I told him that everything said was being recorded, and that the record would show that what he had done was not in the interests of the government...
...playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break. I won't ask his name. If we knew his name we'd have...
...later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors do not tamper with her sometimes confusing finishing-school prose, and the copy desk likes to have its fun with the headlines for Evie's columns: DOES ELIZABETH STILL