A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.