Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plush cord to swing open a small door and admit you to the Supreme Court of the U. S. Mounting two steps around a partition, you come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
...Singleton, England, the school bell rang for recess. The fat boy, aged six, was jammed in his desk, could not rise. When the village carpenter had sawed the desk off him, recess was almost gone...
Secretary of State Stimson last week found his desk strewn with vexatious matters appertaining to that troublesome, vermiform little neighbor, Cuba. As President Hoover's foreign minister, Statesman Stimson had to keep abreast of Cuba's internal disorders, of which several were stirring last week. Complaints centred chiefly about President Gerardo Machado...
...Miami and the West Indies, or to Panama and Ecuador. The deal to cooperate was consummated after many interruptions. United's Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies. A. C. A.'s Hoyt, although he seems sequestered behind his Hayden, Stone & Co. desk, is kept hopping out of Manhattan on affairs of the four aviation concerns of which he is chairman - Wright Aeronautical, Keystone-Loening, Travel Air, Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American...
TIME arrived as usual and reposed on my desk while its subscriber breakfasted. Returning. TIME had disappeared. Four or five hours later, after searching high and low, found TIME in Senator Smoot's private waste basket...