Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hope of all U. S. Prohibitors. He will, they assured one another, be the right man at last to catch and hold that greased and perhaps blind pig called Prohibition. They recalled Harding and the well-filled whiskey flask (for medicinal purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm for social uplift...
...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
...order and proclamation. And here are the engraved commissions for the six new U. S. judges just confirmed by the Senate. Would the President blow up a bridge in California tomorrow evening? Very well, Mr. Forster will arrange for the connection. What flowers does the President like on his desk? Mr. Forster will get them. Will the President receive a delegation of Choctaw Indians and be photographed with them? No? Mr. Forster will send off the necessary regrets...
...Prince himself was there in a box directly behind the auctioneer's desk. The night before he had paid a surprise visit to the stable, stopped at each stall for a last look and pat. He lingered longest at the stall of Miss Muffet, his favorite hunter. Afterward he had stopped in at the local British Legion ball and danced with the wife of his stud groom...
Auctioneer C. W. Harrison climbed up behind his desk, rapped with his gavel. "We regret that His Royal Highness has had to relinquish the sport of which he was so fond," he began, "but we admire his patriotic action at a time when additional duties devolve upon him through the king's illness-it goes to the heart...