deskman

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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 Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman.

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The mirage blinded a CBS Washington deskman named James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network.

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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