Desk Set (released as His Other Woman in the UK) is a 1957 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Directed by Walter...
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The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House...
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lap desk is a desk set in the lap. In the European tradition, it can be considered a modern form of the portable desk. As an antique the lap desk is a...
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issue queues, which can be set up in various ways depending on the help desk size or structure. Typically, large help desks have several teams that are...
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A partners desk, partner's desk or partners' desk (also double desk) is a mostly historical form of desk, a large pedestal desk designed and constructed...
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sets consist of three principal parts: the handset, a handset mounting, and an apparatus box, called variously desk set box, bell box, subscriber set...
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Telephone (redirect from Station set)
the cradle. In the 1930s, telephone sets were developed that combined the bell and induction coil with the desk set, obviating a separate ringer box. The...
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of portable desk, made up of two chests, the bottom one usually having drawers (called a taquillón) and the top one having a hinged desk surface which...
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A rolltop desk is a 19th-century reworking of the pedestal desk with, in addition, a series of stacked compartments, shelves, drawers and nooks in front...
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school desk which has a built-in seat. A "Desk and bench" set is also sometimes called a "Desk and stool". The desk is usually built with a single drawer...
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including William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, William Marchant's The Desk Set (with Shirley Booth), Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (with...
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productions before portraying Ruthie Saylor, a reference-desk worker, in the 1957 film Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Randall's...
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Men An Affair to Remember The Bachelor Party Beau James Designing Woman Desk Set Edge of the City A Face in the Crowd Funny Face The Garment Jungle The...
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Hot desking (sometimes called "non-reservation-based hoteling") is a work office organization system where each space is available for any worker, rather...
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credenza desk (often simply, credenza) is a modern desk form usually placed next to a wall as a secondary work surface to that of another desk, such as...
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proclaimed "Hollywood's new Grace Kelly". Merrill's film credits included Desk Set (1957), A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958), Don't Give Up...
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The model 302 telephone is a desk set telephone that was manufactured in the United States by Western Electric from 1937 until 1955, and by Northern Electric...
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desk is a mahogany partners desk that was used by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office as his Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used...
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was featured in such 1950s films as The FBI Story with James Stewart and Desk Set starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Her other films included...
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A Plantation desk is an antique desk form. It is thought to have been originally used as a mail desk by postmen. The form is known to have been used on...
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them to be set on top of an existing desk for standing, or removed for sitting. While height of most seated desks is standardized, standing desks are made...
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The Hoover desk, also known colloquially as FDR's Oval Office desk, is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Remember (1957). Also in 1957, she played the beleaguered Miss Warriner in Desk Set. Patterson portrayed Ma Ketchum in Nichols,: 762 Maggie McCloud in The...
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IT service management (redirect from Service desk (ITSM))
call centre or help desk as similar kinds of tech support which provide only a portion of what a service desk can offer. A service desk has a more broad...
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on screen for the first time in five years for the office-based comedy Desk Set (1957). Berg notes that it worked as a hybrid of their earlier romantic-comedy...
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personal successes in the musical By the Beautiful Sea (1954) and the comedy Desk Set (1955). Although Booth had become well known to moviegoers during this...
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declining an athletic scholarship. On October 24, 1955, the Broadway play The Desk Set started its run, with Gossett acting in it. The show had 297 performances...
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Radio Two. Named for Katharine Hepburn's librarian character in the movie Desk Set, the show was hosted by Bill Richardson and produced by Jennifer Van Evra...
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Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952) (both also directed by Cukor); Desk Set (1957) (directed by Walter Lang); and finally culminating with the aforementioned...
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The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially...
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