Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped on the seat, and gazed upward, eager to rise. Mrs. Coolidge, good housewife, was enthusiastic over the improvements; insisted on touring the house before permitting the President to go to bed. The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one-time (1920) unsuccessful Democratic nominee for U. S. Vice President, now vice president of the Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, sat at his Manhattan desk last week and said to a news-gatherer: "I will state unequivocally that I do not choose to run for the United States Senate in 1928, any more than...
Last week Edwin Franko Gold man stood on his bandstand listening, not to the warm notes of his trombone but to words which one William B. Roulstone, President of the Central Park Association, was saying. Finally he reached, not for his score, but for a bronze desk-set offered by audiences, for a golden plaque, which members of his band had caused to be decorated with an engraving of their leader's face. "Only Coolidge, Harding, Lindbergh have had such portraits," said Mr. Roulstone. "The trio should be a quartet . . . gold to a Goldman...
...connected with the nearest railway only by a 40-mile bus line, and lies some 300 miles from Melbourne, the plane put into service by Prime Minister Bruce seemed a "necessary luxury." It will enable him to finish breakfast at 8 a. m. in Melbourne and still reach his desk in Canberra in time for an only slightly late morning's work...
...jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that good and sufficient scientific reasons exist for our present types of telephones? Stationary and desk telephones are especially advantageous for long distance talking. Efficient long distance telephoning is far ahead in America. Telephone people are so busy giving us the best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers...