Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Charles River on Beacon Street. The floors are marble, the walls covered in heavy, creamy wallpaper. The Church looks like an expensive doctor’s office, not a local parish. A bookshop and seating area on the first floor sit opposite a desk complete with a smiling teenage receptionist...
...receptionist introduces Allen and me to Jeff, a representative of the Church who offers to show us around. At first, I feel only a fight-or-flight response. I look out the door. But Allen tips me to “fight...
Arriving at work on my first day, I discovered that I had my own modern glass cubicle. I was told by an embarrassed receptionist that she was sorry they didn’t have enough offices this summer. When I responded that I never expected an office, she laughed...
...elder Deak was shot when he stepped out of his office after hearing shots fired at the receptionist. According to a secretary hiding beneath a desk nearby, Lang muttered, "Now you've got yours." The woman was charged with two counts of second-degree murder...
...Every receptionist is familiar with the situation: an importunate visitor without an appointment insists on seeing the boss to air real or imagined grievances. Such was the case with the confused, middle-age woman who pestered the receptionist last week at the Manhattan head quarters of the Deak-Perera foreign exchange company before being ushered out of the office. It might have been just another wrinkle of life in the big city--except the woman soon returned with a gun. Before she was tackled and disarmed by a police officer, Lois E. Lang, 44, had shot to death Receptionist Frances...