Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just held the sheet of paper in front of him on his desk and smiled...
...sentence long since served, he has turned religious, become a Christian Scientist. Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing I can say about you is that you are a gentleman of the Press." The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute to him as dean...
...Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador in Berlin, called on Adolf Hitler three weeks ago. There followed one of those remarkable scenes in which the Realmleader, as Napoleon occasionally used to do, flies into a tremendous passion, smiting his desk and screaming. Effective, this answered, with a negative more convincing than a calm man could have uttered, Sir Eric's question on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to whether Germany would care to enter an international air armament reduction treaty...
...would make "an unbeatable combination." Definitely un beatable, the combination is well planted in this picture. When the Great Emancipator (Frank McGlynn Sr.) receives in his office Virgie Carey, "The Littlest Rebel of Them All," accompanied by her faithful black servitor, it is to plank the child on his desk, share an apple with her and hear from her the sad old story about the dashing Confederate scout (John Boles) who happens to be her widowed father...
...Author did not have to look further than her desk for her material. A conscientious, self-effacing newspaperwoman, she is Household Editor of the Newark Sunday Call, has been in the same job ever since she finished school, 20 years ago. Besides the two novels mentioned, she has written many a pseudonymous children's story, another novel, Head of the Family. If I Have Four Apples is the January choice (with The Next Hundred Years) of the Book-of-the-Month Club...