Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...
...back at work, sometimes at his own desk, sometimes in various offices of the Finance Ministry...
...quits his desk...
...hobby: words. In his spare moments he would seize the Webster dictionary which crowned his desk and therein peruse definitions which he compared with those of the lexicographer, Worcester. This habit bred the rhythm in his conversation "Now Webster says . . . but Worcester maintains...
...have read with interest, a brief paragraph in your issue of July 13, Page 17. I graduated from the City Editor's desk into the ministry. I know every managing editor in New York City...