Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial desk of Petit Parisien sat the charming relict of the late Senator Paul Dupuy, famed Gallic publicist, looking over the latest batch of U. S. comic strips for her Sunday edition. Now and again as she listened to the hum of the presses she wondered whether today she had-scooped Senator François Coty, famed Gallic parfumier and editor of the new Ami du Peuple and other papers...
Meanwhile at the editorial desk of Ami du Peuple pondered M. Coty, hoping perhaps half-heartedly that he had been able to scoop the charming relict of his late adversary...
...Interested, able, he wrote an article showing the unsound condition of U. S. banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition...
...students who plan to leave the general vicinity of Cambridge during the Christmas holidays must return all books to the College Library before leaving. Those students who desire to take books away with them must obtain permission at the Delivery Desk, before leaving...
Last week he crawled into court and confessed that the pretty brunette has everything that once was his: name, magazine, bank book, glass-topped desk, stenographers aplenty of her own. He wanted some of it back again...