Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then he began to read slowly, the words his great-great-grandfather had written so long ago. Corsica, land of hot skies and almost savage peasants, lifted its little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder...
...contributions to the Confidential Guide to College Courses, giving me some silly excuse about having no money to defend libel suits. That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in Shemokin Pa., I put a large red apple on teacher's desk daily, and Freshman year I gave my German A instructor a box of ripe red raspberries one day and a basket of nice prickly pears the next...
...Into the executive offices, from the Kingdom of Ethiopia, marched Dr. C. Martin, legal adviser to Prince Regent Ras Taffari of Ethiopia, bearing a handsome shield in a brilliant red case. The President, prohibited by law from accepting gifts from foreign countries, permitted the shield to repose on his desk until its proper disposi- tion should be advised...
...natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk at the City Hall, I will give the New Yorkers more service than they ever had before...
...document. At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council. His presence seemingly threw a dark shadow over the Spanish crown. The pen descended at the foot of the royal desk. It wrote: "Alfonso...