Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noon one day last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to him a document labeled...
...Ambassador hustled to London, hustled to his desk at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens, Mrs. Dawes and daughter Virginia sped to the Ambassadorial home in Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this...
...before she was very much older. At Roseland a girl can make (with good fortune and tips) about $60 weekly. So Hostess Patton earned easily a living wage, devoted leisure hours to improving herself with courses at Columbia University. She used to check her textbooks at Roseland's desk before she prepared to extend Roseland hospitality to all and sundry...
...Agriculture, C. Argetoianu. "My God!" screamed the Minister's secretary, "Lepers! Unclean! Unclean!" Bravely he stationed himself before the door of his chief's sanctum while panic-stricken clerks and minor officials, overturning chairs and tables, stampeded to the outer air. Prudent Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while the piebald lepers shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they had escaped. Gingerly, Rumanian gendarmes captured the gesticulating lepers. In a nearby pharmacy terrified government clerks tore off their clothes, gargled. scrubbed themselves...
...also a busy one. Up with the six o'clock-rising mountain eagles, King Zog sips steaming hot Turkish coffee, puffs on a Turkish cigaret, begins his day's work. From then on, except for ten minutes' exercise every two hours, he is at his desk in one of the palaces until midnight. His chief diversion is listening to U. S. phonograph records, played on a U. S. phonograph...