Nick crossed to the chair and opened the sales ledger on the desk.
The New Yorker, June 11 , 1938P. 22 The man on the high, leather padded stool in the office of the Schwartz Garage began to speak, and if you had been on the other side of the garage window you might have thoug that he was speaking to the ledger on the desk in front of him.
By John O'Hara The New Yorker, June 11 , 1938P. 22 The man on the high, leather padded stool in the office of the Schwartz Garage began to speak, and if you had been on the other side of the garage window you might have thoug that he was speaking to the ledger on the desk in front of him.
His many students surely remember the ledger he kept on his desk, in which he'd make a mark as we were stumbling through some answer or frail, unformed idea.
And I would trade all such revelations for that poised encounter, in "Man Without a Star" (1955), when Jeanne Crain, seated politely at a desk, with a ledger open in front of her, inquires of Douglas, "What do you want?" In response, he takes a pen, and scratches the word "You" in rough letters across the page.
Other exhibits include Dickens's writing desk, his bank ledger and a wax doll of a girl dressed in the uniform of the Female Orphan Asylum at Lambeth, circa 1840, which shines a light on one of the writer's many strong opinions.
For 44 years he's been recording sales in a handwritten ledger that he keeps on his desk.
Throughout 2007 Mr. Widmer and Ms. King stopped by the historical society every few days, transcribing and photographing thousands of ledger notations for chairs, beds, chests, desks and tables.
This wasn't his first attack: a few months before, he had blown up a police station, killing five people, and returned calmly to his desk, where he finished the ledgers he had been working on.
"ONCE-RISING STAR IN MORRIS FINDS IT HARD TO EMPTY DESK," the headline in the Star-Ledger read, on December 21 , 1997
Looking up from his ledger, seeing my face crumple with dismay, the lieutenant at the front-desk kicked the door closed with his heel.
