Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beer was still not satisfied. He wanted to sit at a desk. And so they moved. Silverstein explained the camera angles were not as good, but he was willing to give...
Arranging the furniture was Silverstein's next problem. He took out a pencil and pad and started sketching. For the tutorial session, he envisioned two easy chairs, no desk. The 'Merchant' scenes were more complicated. He phoned his stage manager. "During the minute cut-off, we may have to change the furniture around. Better get some boys to help. We're shooting the two scenes from different parts of the room...
...desk of Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin last week lay a state paper that could have explosive effects on economic relations between the U.S. and Canada. The paper is senate bill 38, passed recently by the general assembly, to bar any foreign-owned brewery from operating in Maryland. The measure is aimed squarely at the Canadian-owned Carling Brewing Co. Inc., and needs only Governor McKeldin's signature to become...
Disappearing Copy Desk. But often Sammy's risks ran as high as his interest rates. Once in Chicago he ran out of money himself and went to the old Examiner office seeking a loan. When he walked into the newsroom, the whole copy desk except the slotman ducked for the washroom. They were all former St. Louis newsmen who had left town owing Sam money...
Crusader & Dog. Against this figure Greene pits a tired, cynical neutralist, a British newspaperman named Thomas Fowler. He is a man of the past but with no faith in it. Back home are a dissatisfied High Church wife, debt, a dull desk-in short, the Graham Greene country of mildew, cabbage water, frayed cuffs, bad dentistry and unmade beds and all the other seedy physical metaphors for "weeping multitudes [who] droop in a hundred...