She wrote thousands, at a roll-top desk that had once belonged to J. R. R. Tolkien, answering anyone who wrote to her.
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She stood up and went to a roll top desk near the stairs and brought back an envelope that she'd taken from a drawer.
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The first one I saw was a life-sized wild boar, covered with real boar bristles with a roll-top desk-type opening revealing a scene inside .
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For years facilities have been providing patients with spaces that hark back to their younger years — perhaps a faux office with a roll top desk and dial phone or a nonfunctioning kitchen with wooden spoons and an ironing board.
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But even if it's not me sitting at an old-timey roll-top desk with a quill and paper, even if we're in on it as a group, there's just a lot of deliberation over word choice and just getting it right.
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Action Office furnishings have appeared in many films released within the last thirty years. The first film to feature Action Office products was Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968. In the film a white Action Office I roll-top desk is used in the space station reception area.
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He tells Hildy he is no revolutionary, and that he shot the police officer by accident. The reporter realizes this bewildered, harmless little man was railroaded -- just to help the crooked mayor and sheriff pick up enough black votes to win re-election. It is the story of a lifetime. Hildy helps Williams hide inside a roll-top desk.
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Williams's friend Mollie comes looking for him, assuring him that she knows he is innocent. When reporters knock at the door, she hides Williams in a roll-top desk. At this time, the building is surrounded by other reporters and cops looking for Williams. Hildy's stern mother-in-law-to-be (Alma Kruger) enters berating Hildy for the way she is treating Bruce.
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At Forbes, Cutter set up the art and music department and encouraged children of nearby schools to exhibit their art. He also established branch libraries and instituted a traveling library system much like the bookmobile. Today, Charles Ammi Cutter might be surprised to see his own portrait hanging over the reference librarians' desk in the Forbes Library in Northampton. His roll top desk is also in the office currently occupied by the recently elected director of the library.
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Otto Ihling was a large part of fraternal and community affairs, as an active lifelong member of all the Masonic Bodies. Kalamazoo elected him Mayor three times, 1887-1889. KPL: Kalamazoo Mayors Otto served the community and his business at his big roll top desk for sixty-seven years and worked right up until his death in 1936. Herbert Everard was also an active member of the Kalamazoo Community, serving as school board president for many years.
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They tell Poirot that they signed and witnessed two wills, as Marsh said he had made a mistake with the first, although they did not see its contents. Immediately afterwards, Marsh left the house to settle tradesmen's accounts. Looking round the house, Poirot is pleased with the dead man's order and method, except for one particular: the key to a roll top desk has been affixed, not to a neat label, but instead to a dirty envelope. After a long search, Poirot declares himself beaten and is about to return to London when he remembers the visit to the tradesmen.
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While she worked there she had a big roll-top desk that overlooked the Capital. She kept a record of each bill in a big record book. In this ledger, she recorded the course of each bill up to the bill's signature or veto by the president. In 1933, during the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt became president, and Simpson lost her position. However, during the Depression she was appointed to the Women’s Division of the Civil Works Administration and later traveled through the United States as Director of Women’s Production Projects for the Works Progress Administration.
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In December 2011, a street running along the park was renamed Frank Gotch Boulevard. There is an extensive Gotch collection in the Dan Gable Wrestling Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. On display are the wrestling shoes he wore into the ring in 1911 against Hackenschmidt, his Mason's sword and leather scabbard, the roll-top desk that sat in his living room in Humboldt, and many other rare items. In addition, an independent film company acquired the rights to the book Gotch: An American Hero in 2008, a biography written by Mike Chapman published in 1999, and is listed as "in pre-production" on its official website, yet still does not appear on the film company's IMDb credits page as in production as of April 2015.
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Prismatic Fountain, Denver, Colorado - May 30, 1908 > "Mayor Robert W. Speer and F.W. Darlington, an engineer with the Denver > Interurban Railway, dedicate the new marvel in City Park Lake--The Prismatic > Electric Fountain. The Fountain features electric lighting effects that have > not been seen before by the public. Eleven columns of brightly coloured > light stream through the dramatic changing patterns of water. High in the > north tower of the City Park Pavilion, an operator sits at a roll top desk, > moving levers to undulate the twelve sets of water features and make the > columns of light change color to the sounds of the Denver Municipal Band." ::Denver Municipal Facts--May 22, 1909 F.W. Darlington was a pioneer in electrical fountain control as well as water design.
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The clock is still functioning today. On account of this clock, the room received the definitive name, salon de la pendule (1760 plan #2) (Kuraszewski, 1976; Verlet 1985, p. 450). By 1760, the cabinet intérieur (1760 plan #7) had become to be also known as the bureau du roi and this room came best to represent not only the personal taste of Louis XV, but it also stands as one of the finest examples of the style Louis XV. In 1755, the cabinetmaker Gilles Joubert delivered two corner cabinets, complementing those by Antoine- Robert Gaudreau, which had been delivered in 1739, to house numismatic record of Louis XV's reign (Verlet 1985, p. 452). In 1769, the mechanical roll-top desk by Jean-François Oeben was delivered (Verlet 1985, p. 454).
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In 1959, Jake Belknap, a young, lonely, single man in Brooklyn, New York is looking for used furniture to furnish his recently acquired apartment. Walking in a section of the borough that contains very large, ancient, magnificent mansions about to be torn down, he finds a yard sale of antique furniture from a mansion about to be demolished, and is fascinated by an antique roll-top desk from the 1800s, which he purchases. After getting the desk home, he opens a drawer and finds original stationery from the previous century, along with several old stamps from that period. He also finds a love letter from a woman named Helen Elizabeth Worley, who lived in the Brooklyn of the 1880s, to a man whom she dreams about, although she is about to be engaged to a man she doesn't love.
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