rolltop

Behind him, flanking a rolltop desk, were framed pictures of two sets of brothers: John F. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Schiff and his elder sibling, Dan.

“I was a lonely, reading child, and usually had one friend each year, a friend whose parents were visiting at the university from somewhere else, a place to which she would return at the end of that year, and perhaps send me a letter or two that I would never reply to, but would keep, guiltily, in a kind of pincers of knowing I ought to write and not writing, in the drawers of my rolltop desk.”

From a drawer of a rolltop desk in his living room—not far from two urns containing the ashes of his cats, Isabelle and Haley—he retrieved a yellowing piece of paper, on which he’d written the initials of borrowers next to amounts of no-interest loans, mostly from the nineteen-eighties.

Hildy Johnson befriends a murder suspect who’s escaped from jail and hides him inside a rolltop desk in the newsroom, so that nobody else can get an interview with him—great!

My grandfather goes to a rolltop desk and opens it.