deskman

Example Sentences

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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 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.

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In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools.

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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 Raleigh, Henry