Word: anterooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With both Reno and Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm...
...White House. The moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division...
...some years, although her bony, faintly reptilian face has brooded through several recent Hollywood films. In Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus...
When I have read it, my copy goes into the Mess anteroom where it is read and enjoyed by the Officers of the Regiment from the colonel, who is notorious for "sitting on it," down to the newest subaltern. After that it goes either to my brother, a tea planter in Assam, or to a brother-in-law serving, at present, on the N. W. Frontier of India, or perhaps to a friend in England, so that it is never wasted...
Four Eyes Conference. Leader Hitler & friends walked through crowds of cheering Nazis to the President's door. The friends, who included Speaker Goring and Economic Adviser Dr. Otto Wagener, were asked to wait in an anteroom...