desk's

Whatever the cause, the anger, and bitterness and frustration drips from the walls; the front desk snaps at the guests, the housekeepers snap at the front desk in the hallway outside my room, I heard a maid apologizing to a guest for his unmade room -- "it's the front desk's fault, they always send people up before we're ready" and the bartenders and bellhops snap at everyone.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel Paul Carr 2011

Whatever the cause, the anger, and bitterness and frustration drips from the walls; the front desk snaps at the guests, the housekeepers snap at the front desk in the hallway outside my room, I heard a maid apologizing to a guest for his unmade room -- "it's the front desk's fault, they always send people up before we're ready" and the bartenders and bellhops snap at everyone.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel Paul Carr 2011

The memories stored in the desk's drawers are in part ancestral — of pogroms, the Holocaust and even Israel's early wars (one character, Dovik, returns from the Yom Kippur War in a state of shell shock).

A Desk and Its Stories 2010

Whatever the cause, the anger, and bitterness and frustration drips from the walls; the front desk snaps at the guests, the housekeepers snap at the front desk in the hallway outside my room, I heard a maid apologizing to a guest for his unmade room -- "it's the front desk's fault, they always send people up before we're ready" and the bartenders and bellhops snap at everyone.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel Paul Carr 2011

UBS alleges that a rogue trader placed his own bets on U.S. and European stocks, violating the desk's rules.

How Trader Racked Up Big Loss Carrick Mollenkamp 2011

"There's an aggression to the desk's bronze legs that relates to the finial," he says.

Dealers Get Real 2011

In most cases, airport staff are friendly and helpful: Security staff are there for that very function, our security, and it's not the check-in desk's fault that an airplane has been delayed or cancelled, however upsetting or disruptive it is to our plans.

Emyr Thomas: Travel Guide: How to Travel by Plane Emyr Thomas 2011

In most cases, airport staff are friendly and helpful: Security staff are there for that very function, our security, and it's not the check-in desk's fault that an airplane has been delayed or cancelled, however upsetting or disruptive it is to our plans.

Emyr Thomas: Travel Guide: How to Travel by Plane Emyr Thomas 2011

He told me that the previous night, he had poured glue into his desk's built-in pencil tray and it had dried.

Carolyn Bucior: The Fabric of My Cosmos Carolyn Bucior 2012

Whatever the cause, the anger, and bitterness and frustration drips from the walls; the front desk snaps at the guests, the housekeepers snap at the front desk in the hallway outside my room, I heard a maid apologizing to a guest for his unmade room -- "it's the front desk's fault, they always send people up before we're ready" and the bartenders and bellhops snap at everyone.

Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Eight: I'd Rather Be Abused at the Riviera Than Set Foot in Donald Trump's Hotel Paul Carr 2011