deskman

Example Sentences

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To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman�who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Raleigh, Henry