deskman

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They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it 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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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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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.

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There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson