On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.

Talleyrand passed his New York law office one night on the way to a party.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

An adequately staffed and equipped State assessing office could apply uniform methods and standards which would go far toward producing equitable assessments on all properties throughout the State.

This office cooperates with the U. S. Department of Commerce in giving statewide coverage to services which include: statistics on markets abroad ; ;

I started my tour of them at the Turkish Government Tourist Office, next to Pan American's office on the left as you enter the driveway that leads to the Hilton Hotel.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

They are segregated businesses, combining again on one site the factory and the office, drawing their work force from segregated communities.

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

When it ended, a dusky sheik in desert robes flowed into Hagerty's office to report on the interview.

`` Okay '', I said to the attendant, `` I'll let you know if I close the deal on the office in this building ''.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

Kitti had come into the office, on somebody's recommendation, because she needed help in preparing her income tax return.

Behind him on the steps of the little office sat old man Arthur ; ;

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

All its constituent republics declared their independence in 1991, and on Christmas, Gorbachev resigned from office.

It set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $ 14. 75 million in ticket sales.

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world.

On Christmas of 1973, Bartholomew became Metropolitan of Philadelphia, and was renamed as director of the patriarchal office until his enthronement as Metropolitan of Chalcedon in 1990.

The # 1 box office hit of that year was White Christmas, which earned $ 12, 000, 000.

Every year, the post office also creates a special Christmas hand-cancellation pictorial postmark for use during December, which also attracts mail from all over the world.

The town's name has prompted thousands of visitors each December to mail their Christmas cards at the local post office in order to get a " Bethlehem " postmark.

Every year, Christmas sends a large amount of mail from its post office from people who mail letters from the town so they can have the " Christmas " postmark on their holiday mailings.

According to WSB-TV's Georgia's Hidden Treasures, the local post office postmarked nearly 200, 000 Christmas cards and other pieces of mail prior to Christmas in 2009.

Every year, people from all over the world send Christmas cards to the Bethlehem post office to have them postmarked.

Although it was intended to be a Christmas season blockbuster, Wayne's World 2 was only moderately successful and did not receive the box office intake or positive fan reaction as the first film did.

As discussed in a DVD interview with Palin and Gilliam, the film came out in the fall season ( after the blockbuster summer films, but before the hit Christmas season ) and became extremely successful at the U. S. box office, making $ 42. 4 million.

In 2004, the German post office gave away 20 million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell of a fir Christmas tree, cinnamon, gingerbread, a honey-wax candle, a baked apple and an orange.

The film set several box office records in the United States for a Christmas Day release, beating the previous record holder, 2008's Marley & Me, by nearly $ 10M, and finished second only to Avatar in a record-setting Christmas weekend box office.

Upon its Christmas 1939 release, Gulliver had a decent showing at the box office, although the quality of the story and animation was far behind that of the film it tried to emulate, Snow White.

This is mainly late-night fillers with some box office hits at Christmas and holiday periods.

Frank Costanza's son, George ( Jason Alexander ), creates donation cards for a fake charity called The Human Fund ( with the slogan " Money For People ") in lieu of having to give office Christmas presents.