Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impulse he rose, and padded across the room to his desk, and drew from it a packet of letters. These he skimmed through, smiling abstractedly; at one he blushed furiously and wagged his head in self-reproof. He looked long at the picture on his desk, and then his gaze wandered guiltily to his book, now abandoned on the floor. Again he stood at the window, but this time he saw nothing. He took in great gulps of the sweet air, trying to choke himself on the scents of Spring...
...catalogue card, which may be sufficient in other subjects. When an undergraduate tries to pass the Cerberus guarding the stacks he is rebuffed, and it is even difficult for a faculty member to get permission for him. Once in the music stacks, the facilities are overwhelming. A single desk below a basement window without an electric light is the sum total...
...Mclntyre handed the President a document that amused him; he shot back a question; perused the paper; pursed his lips; stopped to slake his thirst with a drink of water; wiped his mouth with a handkerchief from his side pocket; finished reading; squiggled a signature. His desk was clear. Then, he straightened up and turned on his charm to greet Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha (a great Roosevelt admirer) who arrived accompanied by Brazil's Minister of Finance, Arthur Souza Costa. The President smiled his most charming smile as he took Senhor Souza Costa's hand. Then the agreement...
...hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave the verdict...
Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...