Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special feature for quite special people, SHREVE'S in Boston offers this cellophane tape dispenser. It serves a three-way purpose: keeping tape at your fingertips so that it's handy when a paper tips or an envelope won't stick; acting as a paper weight; and giving your desk the distinguished air of a place where things get done well, quickly, and in style...
When Wallace bought a huge old desk and moved it-with a secretary-into their already cramped quarters, Lila rented an empty pony shed next to the garage for $10 a month, and turned it into the Digest's office. When Ralph Henderson, a jungle-born son of missionaries, dropped in from nearby White Plains to see what the little magazine was like, the Wallaces hired him as business manager, soon made him an editor. They later hired Harold Lynch, an assistant Episcopal rector, to handle the money. The Digest soon outgrew the pony shed, and spread all over...
Then, while Lila reads, Wallace walks up a winding staircase to his medieval-tower workroom. Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered...
...special feature for quite special people, SHREVE'S in Boston offers this cellophane tape dispenser. It serves a three-way purpose: keeping rape at your fingertips so that it's handy when a paper rips or an envelope won't stick; acting as a paper weight; and giving your desk the distinguished air of a place where things get done well, quickly, and in style...
Weedhead's First Day. On his first day he: 1) made loud, pointed remarks about the physique of the prettiest teacher and tried to date her; 2) put his feet on a desk in the school office, lit a fresh cigar and called the principal "Skinny"; 3) picked a fight with the toughest kid in school and whaled him into quivering wreckage. Garza spoke knowingly of his ability to "blow the weed" (smoke marijuana), within the week had been nicknamed "Weedhead" and was the swaggering leader of the worst element in the institution...