deskman
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TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker.
From Time Magazine Archive
They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own.
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The deskman instructed the Coast Guard not to entice the sailor, but under any circumstances to "keep me apprised" of what happens next.
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But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
Once so shorthanded that columnists had to wind computer tape and deskmen had to help set type, the staff now works almost normal shifts.
From Time Magazine Archive
City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.
From Time Magazine Archive
The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau.
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There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
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But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.
From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame
