Not because Somerville is the seat of an insane hospital. But because it is not in the Boston Directory. If you please, Somerville is an independent city, and so, unless John McLaughlin worked in Boston, if he lived in Somerville, he would not be in the Boston Directory. Not much! Somerville has its own seven John McLaughlins besides those Boston ones. "I say, Harry, Tom, Dick--somebody fetch Somerville Directory!"
Dick flew and returned with the book. "Here you be! `John McLaughlin, laborer, 99 Linwood Street!英文原著 · 《The Brick Moon》
"When I got there I found him in a private office with a lot of directors who were looking pretty fuzzy. They stated the case. The president of the Republic Insurance Company had skipped with about a tenth of a million dollars in cash. The directors wanted him back pretty bad, but they wanted the money worse. They said they needed it. They had traced the old gent's movements to where he boarded a tramp fruit steamer bound for South America that same morning with his daughter and a big gripsack--all the family he had.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
The delightful weather suggested to his mind the idea of walking out to Campden Hill to pursue his investigations on the spot. So he made his way across the Park into Kensington Gardens heading for the pleasant glades of Notting Hill. In the Bayswater Road he turned into a postoffice and consulted the London Directory. He very quickly convinced himself that among the hundreds of thousands of names compiled by Mr. Kelly's indefatigable industry Mrs. Malplaquet's was not to be found. Neither did the street directory show her as the tenant of any of the houses on Campden Hill.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
The committee of three chose from among the two hundred a directorate of thirty. The thirty became the directorate of a new corporation, made in 1910, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
The offer of the presidency of the Exposition Company was made to a well-known business man of San Francisco, C. Moore. Besides being able and energetic, he was agreeable to the factions created by the graft prosecution of a half dozen years before. Like the board of directors, he was to serve without salary. He stipulated that in the conduct of the work there should be no patronage. With the directors he entered into an a agreement that all appointments should be made for merit alone.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
He had another notion. We'd look in the directory. That seemed to have a glimmer of sense somewheres in its neighborhood, so we found an apothecary store and the clerk handed us out a book once again as big as a church Bible. "'Kelly,' says Jonadab. 'Yes, here 'tis. Now, "James Kelly." Land of Love! Barzilla, look here.'
"I looked, and there wa'n't no less than a dozen pages of James Kellys beginning with fifty James A.'s and endin' with four James Z.'s. The Y in 'New York' ought to be a C, judgin' by that directory.英文原著 · 《The Depot Master》
Madam President, Director Morrison thinks that-- Wait a minute. Where is Director Morrison? Why-- She opted to stay at ODNI.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
The director just invited me to dinner at his hotel, but it's in his room.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
This director slips you anything that looks like a Sweet Tart, it's probably that date rape drug that knocks you out美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
According to crew scuttlebutt, the director tried some funny business last night.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》