Word: desks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term will be the Quirinal Palace, former home of Italy's kings. It is a huge, drafty place, full of heavy furniture, and President Einaudi feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders. A lot of the massive furniture...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
Sergeant Toomey discovered no foot-prints outside the first-floor windows, but did find a set of fingerprints in the desk drawer of James P. Morton '51, the third roommate. These are now being checked against national flies in Washington...
...office at the usual 8:20 a.m., the President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...
Provost Elliott Dunlap Smith of Carnegie Tech thought that each boy had to work out his own values for himself. He told how, as a boy, he nad built a desk to last a lifetime, after long labor asked his teacher whether one panel was good enough. When the teacher told him to figure it out for himself, Smith scrapped the panel and made another one. The desk was still serving him last week, and so was the lesson. Said he: "Morals can be better taught incidentally...