Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Job Seeker is an oldtimer, he now gets a handshake. Otherwise No. 1 Secretary listens very briefly to his case and waves him down on a deep leather couch to wait anywhere from five to 50 minutes...
...buzzer buzzes. Up jumps the Job-Seeker. No. 1 Secretary goes to investigate. If all is well, he opens another white door for the Job-Seeker to pass, through a short passage, into a large green oval room with three bay windows at one end, a marble fireplace (with fire) at the other. At a flat-topped mahogany desk sits the President...
...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
Elated or dismayed, the Job-Seeker travels back to the lobby. This time he is approached and surrounded by the press, rising from benches, emerging from their cubby-hole quarters, flocking about to ply him with artful questions. He calls them "Boys" and, if wise, conceals all the President has said...
...guard in blue whistles for a cab and off, to the immense admiration of the throng of mere tourists waiting outside, goes the Job-Seeker...