Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East of this room is the President's private office, or study, for generations the old Cabinet room. Here on the flag-flanked "Resolute" desk, a long-ago gift from Queen Victoria, wait the morning papers. It is a cheery room, with bookcases marching up the walls. Here the President receives his favored visitors...
...Secretary goes to investigate. If all is well, he opens another white door for the Job-Seeker to pass, through a short passage, into a large green oval room with three bay windows at one end, a marble fireplace (with fire) at the other. At a flat-topped mahogany desk sits the President...
Seniors and others who expect to complete the requirements for the Bachelor's degree in June must file at 4 University Hall, not later than today, an application for the degree, on a card to be obtained at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall. They must also register at the Department Office if they expect to take the General Examinations...
...under the caption "Not Free," which states, in part, as follows: "The Y. M. C. A. did not practice giving away anything-unless 'beaucoup francs' were pressed on them by the soldiery." It happened that while I was reading this letter, there was on my desk five typewritten folios, embracing 1,250 pages, covering the report of the Inspector General of the A. E. F., on the investigation of the Y. M. C. A. with the American Expeditionary Forces...
...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...