Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Short, swart, smiling "Cousin Charley" was not there. After poking things into and taking things out of his desk at the Capitol in Washington, he proceeded to Providence, R. I., to stay with his darkly handsome daughter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight. Mrs. Knight's father-in-law, C. Prescott Knight, took the Nominee out on his yacht to watch sailing races in Narragansett...
...rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston computes as three to six years rather than the implied "lifetime" of 20-30-40 years...
...press stand, Writer H. L. Mencken took off his coat, revealing a cocoa-colored shirt and loud suspenders. Next to Writer Mencken, Publisher Alfred A. ("Borzoi") Knopf of the American Mercury climbed up on the desk and exposed several yards of film in his small cinema camera. Then, saving the film in case something else should happen, Publisher Knopf sat down again...
...past three years," added and boasted Sefior Amatuzzo, "our 18 farms and 17 shops for delinquent youths have produced various goods worth $200,000. . . . For example one of our skilled carpenters made, and sold at a good price, too, a desk and chair now used by the President* of Argentina...
...thrust entirely upon the student. Facts are ladled out to him wholesale, like sweet and sour pickles from a tub, with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research...