The lone man in charge of the Copy desk, just returned from a bitter argument with the composing-room foreman, watched him sourly as he passed, and grimly sharpened a blue pencil. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
And the type-setter comes out of the composing-room and warns them: "Gentlemen, we still don't have a leader for tomorrow's issue". ❋ Unknown (2006)
Pamela, and found a job in the composing-room of the Evening News. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The compositors were standing idle in the composing-room, and their foreman was talking with the night editor. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
Barely a week had elapsed since my receipt of the above letter when, as I stood alone in the composing-room one morning, I was surprised to see the figure of an unknown man appear above the balustrade leading from below. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)
Jeffreys would be reaching in the left bottom drawer of his scarred old desk for his little package of bread and cheese with an apple or a banana to top it off; he always ate that twenty-five minutes after midnight, just before the linotype men and the rest of the composing-room staff, who ate at the all-night restaurant around the corner, straggled back to their work. ❋ Hopkins Moorhouse (N/A)
The entire fourth floor is used as a composing-room, where stand "frames" for ninety-six compositors; the foreman and his assistants have each a private office, and a private room is assigned to the proofreaders. ❋ Various (N/A)
He had first learned the value of it in many a clandestine game of poker, which he had condescended to play of a Saturday afternoon in a corner of the deserted composing-room. ❋ Hopkins Moorhouse (N/A)
The composing-room of a large daily paper, for instance, presents, day and night, a spectacle of the almost ceaseless industry of jaded operatives. ❋ Various (N/A)
These are the foreman of the composing-room, the foreman of the pressroom, and the foreman of the stereotyping-room. ❋ Edwin L. Miller (N/A)
Herald: the first-named in the business department, the next three on the editorial staff, and the last as foreman of the composing-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Father of the Chapel, accompanied by two or three of his companions, left the composing-room, were absent for some twenty minutes, and then filed solemnly back again. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
A shed was erected in the corner of the composing-room, which served by night as a dormitory for numbers of otherwise roofless waifs, and here during the daytime a young Belgian and his wife set up a small factory of monkeys up sticks, which when completed they proceeded to sell in the streets. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)
When he entered the composing-room he was invariably received with a cheer by the men, whom he called "my Caxtonian Bees." ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
No one in the composing-room said anything; but those compositors who had started to go home began slipping off their overcoats, and every one stood with his eyes fixed on the door. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
There were then engaged in the composing-room a foreman and eight compositors, one of whom, G.orge G. Bailey, subsequently became foreman, and later one of the proprietors. ❋ Various (N/A)
State with his vigorous appeals, one of the type-setters came in from the composing-room, and, planting himself before the editor, said: ❋ John Wilson (N/A)
Nothing short of dynamite, can "kill" a "good story," once it has gone to the composing-room. ❋ Ross Beeckman (N/A)
But on reaching the composing-room on this particular morning an extraordinary sight presented itself. ❋ Isabel Meredith (N/A)
A group of composing-room men went by, on their way to Work after taking the inevitable look at the body. ❋ Polsky, Thomas (1939)
