Word: rolltop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring off the distances with pieces of string, has been...
...taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
...Discoveries. The first editorial offices were in the high-ceilinged front parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking...
Friends and relatives of the late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
...object of this Elbert Hubbard rhapsody was Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. He might better have compared her to Hetty Green. From her huge office, bare except for a big rolltop desk and green velvet couch, Mrs. Newbury had run Chicago's Boston Store for 42 years with a hand as firm as it was unknown. So doing, she had become a State Street legend...