Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention opened. Mr. Lewis flayed the radicals. Casting an eye at Mr. Brophy, whom he had easily defeated for President, he said: "I could tell of slimy things." Radicals cowered. They continued to cower until, two days later, Radical Hapgood rose to criticize. Mr. Lewis pounded the desk, eyes flashing. He smelled a fight. "If you say another word," said he, "you'll have to be ejected" (on the grounds that he was not entitled to a seat). The young man hit a sergeant-at-arms on the left shoulder, but no one came to his rescue. At the desk...
Nothing less than mental Omnipotence is required of the University Information Desk in University Hall which embarks February 11 upon its second year of answering a great many questions which would cause a Britannica Encyclopedia to go into hysterics. The well-meaning, secluded, unassuming little Desk is called upon to answer questions dealing with everything from a morgue to an employment office. The Sphinx of Egypt would blush with shame at its riddle if it could hear some of the enigmas coming over the wires to University...
...Desk had not erased the wrinkles of perplexity caused by this problem from its brow when the other telephone tinkled...
...your oil?' in Chinese?" Presented difficulties and the Information Desk just couldn't tell an old man with whom he could converse in Dutch...
Nothing could balk the Information Desk. Like the sphinx--it is very wise...