Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Types of employers for girls to beware of include the amorous executive who is convinced that "99 out of 100 want to be kissed"; and the "Don Juan," easily spotted by the picture of his wife on his desk "as a perpetual reminder to go home at night." This latter type often calls all the girls by diminutives of their surnames such as "Macky" or "Jonesy." He Promptly puts things on a "clubby" basis and "the invitation to take a drink with him after 5 o'clock is a prelude to a dinner invitation and sometimes more." A particularly...
...hundred listeners below him on the floor, 600 listeners above him in the galleries, cheered and applauded as Franklin Roosevelt mounted to the desk of the Clerk in the House of Representatives one evening last week. The President unstrapped his gold wrist watch, laid it on the desk before him; removed his pince nez and laid them beside his manuscript. Then spreading his feet wide, he took a firm grip on the sides of the desk. "Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. . . ." Solemnly the best radio voice in the U. S. pronounced...
When New Year's came to the U. S. Supreme Court, a new desk and a group of filing cases appeared in the larger of the two rooms used by newshawks in the basement of the new Court building across the plaza from the Capitol. With the furniture, in moved a Court Clerk named Nelson A. Potter. Promptly the ungrateful Press announced even the Supreme Court now had a press agent. Actually Clerk Potter had been appointed to put an end to old complaints of the Press that it was unduly difficult to see or obtain copies of official...
...memoirs will be adorned with versions of what "Tony" said last week if he proves to be a great British Foreign Secretary. What did Lord Curzon say on the like occasion? Foreign Office legend has it that he stared at the inkstand on the Foreign Secretary's desk through his monocle and exclaimed, "What, may I ask, is that remarkable object...
...Children. He has one class a day, at 8 a. m., after which he works in his office, which has a black steel desk, cream walls, tan curtains, grey rug, a cosmic-ray counter clicking away in a corner; or in the laboratories just outside where he has $50,000 worth of equipment for his own researches. He does much of his own experimental work, and his assistants admire his manual skill. He is reputed the best scientific glassblower in the Midwest...