Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Graphic because of the amazing liberty I enjoyed, but I became unhappy because of a double cross about money." This year, he said, the Graphic promised him $300 a week, 50% of syndicate receipts. Neither the $300 nor all the 50% forthcame, Winchell related. But in his desk was a contract with the Hearst organization for a weekly salary of $500 plus 50% of the syndicated receipts. Last week, the Hearst contract was sold to Publisher A. J. Kobler, of the Mirror, which, such sheets as Variety suspect, still belongs to William Randolph Hearst...
...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...
...Cecil's desk clerk was, of course, obliged to explain. A dozen times he repeated to a dozen querists...
What could be fairer than that? Legislators all over the world are always ready to write enthusiastic platitudes in favor of anything that sounds like a good cause. The wronged Poldavians seemed a very good cause. Each of the 28 deputies sat down at his desk and pledged his moral support to "Foreign Minister Lamidaeff of Poldavia...
What happened after Dr. Shields ducked under the desk was a shower of eggs, rocks, fruit, skins, fish. Then came the students, 400 strong, irate, crying, "Lets get Shields! Hurray for Wayman...