Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Haley Fiske of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: "I said: 'Simply great!' to describe my sensations upon finding my Manhattan home and office filled with flowers and presents for my 75th birthday, last week. Five minutes after I reached my desk (at 9:45 as usual), my secretary produced many a telegram. My reading of them was interrupted by the arrival of more flowers, which I sniffed appreciatively. Soon a delegation of our office managers trooped in, bringing me a pigskin suitcase. I thanked them and tried to resume my morning's work, when in came...
...huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite chair, many of his books, all brought carefully from the White House. Here he may work when he wishes to stay at home; on most days he will continue to use the executive offices in the right wing of the White House...
...replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white man who will say: 'He is with...
...third magnitude have ceased to be news, not only to the general public but to the college which supports one of the finest observatories in the world. Monthly reports on the progress of man's knowledge of the universe promptly arrive on the city editor's desk and as promptly find their way to the waste- basket. The strange, the almost miraculous, certainly the overwhelmingly large, are recorded in them but they appear at best only in scientific magazines with a circulation of perhaps one thousand...
...taken in the same wagon to the Brattle Square station, was arrested while standing under a Yard gate. He was hit on the head from behind, and dragged in a dazed condition to the patrol wagon. At the station he refused to give his name to anyone but the desk sergeant. He was seized by three patrolmen, dragged to the hall, and while two of them held his arms, a third knocked him unconscious with a fist blow to the face...